Ticket to India
Published on 17. November 2015
288 pages
978-1-4814-2260-4 (ISBN)
Description
A family trip to India turns into a grand adventure in this contemporary novel about the Great Partition, from the award-winning author of Saving Kabul Corner and Shooting Kabul.
A map, two train tickets, and a mission. These are things twelve-year-old Maya and her big sister Zara have when they set off on their own from Delhi to their grandmother's childhood home of Aminpur, a small town in Northern India. Their goal is to find a chest of family treasures that their grandmother's family left behind when they fled from India to Pakistan during the Great Partition. But soon the sisters become separated, and Maya is alone. Determined to find her grandmother's lost chest, she continues her trip, enlisting help on the way from an orphan boy named Jai.
Maya's grand adventure through India is as thrilling as it is warm: a journey through her family's history becomes a real coming-of-age quest.
A map, two train tickets, and a mission. These are things twelve-year-old Maya and her big sister Zara have when they set off on their own from Delhi to their grandmother's childhood home of Aminpur, a small town in Northern India. Their goal is to find a chest of family treasures that their grandmother's family left behind when they fled from India to Pakistan during the Great Partition. But soon the sisters become separated, and Maya is alone. Determined to find her grandmother's lost chest, she continues her trip, enlisting help on the way from an orphan boy named Jai.
Maya's grand adventure through India is as thrilling as it is warm: a journey through her family's history becomes a real coming-of-age quest.
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N. H. Senzai is the author of the acclaimed Shooting Kabul, which was on numerous state award lists and an NPR Backseat Book Club Pick. Its companion, Saving Kabul Corner, was nominated for an Edgar Award. While her first two books are based in part on husband's experience fleeing Soviet-controlled Afghanistan in the 1970s, her third, Ticket to India, is based on her own family's history. She is also the author of Escape from Aleppo. Ms. Senzai lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her online at NHSenzai.com.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Map of Maya's Journey
- Prologue
- 1. A Rose Is a Rose
- 2. Secrets and Lies
- 3. Grand Adventure
- 4. Blood and Tears
- 5. Delhi Landing
- 6. Down Memory Lane
- 7. Days Long Gone
- 8. Desperate Decisions
- 9. Runaway Train
- 10. Misdirection
- 11. From the Frying Pan into the Fire
- 12. Star-Crossed Love
- 13. Caught
- 14. A Spider's Web
- 15. Bathroom Follies
- 16. Friendships Formed
- 17. Honorable Intentions
- 18. Unexpected Encounters
- 19. A Spot of Tea
- 20. Fighting Pink
- 21. The Last Leg
- 22. Digging Up the Past
- 23. Unexpected Encounters
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- Author's Note
- About the Author
- Copyright
