A Long Way Home
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Prologue 1. Remembering 2. Getting Lost 3. Survival 4. Salvation 5. A New Life 6. My Mum's Journey 7. Growing Up 8. Resuming the Search 9. Finding Home 10. Meeting My Mother 11. Reconnection 12. Reaching Out 13. Returning Epilogue
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All Themes Family Memory, Technology, and Friendship Survival, Poverty, and Childhood Human Kindness Destiny, Chance, and Luck
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All Characters Saroo Brierley Mum / Sue Brierley Kamla Dad / John Brierley Mantosh Saroo’s Birth Father Guddu Kallu Shekila Mrs. Saroj Sood Lisa Asra The Railway Worker The Friend The Teenager The Homeless Man The Mother Josef Julie
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A Long Way Home

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