Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to a Christian orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents that he already has a family back in India. Horrified, they try their best to track down his Indian family, but all avenues lead to dead ends. Meanwhile, they simply love him, change his name to Taj, enroll him in school, and make him part of their family. And his story might have ended there had it not been for the persistent questions in his head: Who am I? Why was I taken? How do I get home? More than a decade later, Taj meets Priya, a girl from southern India with surprising ties to his past. Is she the key to unveil the secrets of his childhood or is it too late? And if he does make it back to India, how will he find his family with so few clues? From the best-selling author of The Rent Collector, this is a deeply moving and gripping journey of discovering one's self and the unbreakable family bonds that connect us forever. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Choice Review By Chris Schoebinger, National Publishing Director at Shadow Mountain Truth is stranger than fiction. In the case of the new novel The Orphan Keeper, this is absolutely true. And, yet, this amazing work of fiction is based on a remarkable, true story. Last month, Shadow Mountain sent a camera crew to southern India with author Camron Wright to visit Taj and his family in their second home. KSL television will be running a special documentary about Taj Rowland between sessions of the 2016 October General Conference. In addition, the January 2017 issue of LDS Living Magazine will feature a behind-the-scenes story about Taj and his remarkable journey. In the meantime, I highly recommend that you read The Orphan Keeper. Although the book doesn’t mention this, there is a Latter-day Saint connection as Taj was adopted by a Mormon family in Utah and later served a two-year mission in London. Some early readers have asked why this true story is called a novel instead of a memoir. While Taj’s story is based on real events, some details were fictionalized to “fill in the gaps.” For example, part of the story is told from Taj’s birth mother’s point-of-view soon after Taj was kidnapped. We don’t know exactly what happened to Taj’s birth mother during that time period or all the things she did in her attempt to find her son, so the author proposed a possible scenario. Even Taj’s memory as a young boy is incomplete. However, much of what is written is not only true but is also an inspiring, gripping, unforgettable account that makes The Orphan Keeper my favorite book for 2016. And the actual photographs and documents at the end of the book truly bring the story to life. To learn more about Taj’s remarkable story, I invite you to visit TheOrphanKeeper.com.