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DON MESSERSCHMIDT
, March 20, 2011
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Here’s a book from the heart, by a talented and compassionate writer. When Conor Grennan set out on a round-the-world trip he began by volunteering to work for a few months at an orphanage in Kathmandu. It was a decision that profoundly changed his life and the lives of the orphans he writes about. It wasn’t long, however, until he learned that they were not orphans in the true sense. Then, in a tour de force of orphanage life and child trafficking in Nepal, Grennan describes helping them reconnect with long lost families... This is a serious, often humorous, sometimes tragic, always touching memoir of the author and his small charges. The story is so captivating that I read it in one sitting. A recommended read.
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