A review by gordonj
Forward Me Back to You, by Mitali Perkins
5.0
When Kat and Ravi travel to Kalkata, India with their church group they go with very different intentions. Kat wants to escape the past and Ravi wants to discover it.
Kat is the reigning teen Jiu-Jitsu champion of Northern California. But even her physical skills couldn’t protect her from sexual assault at her high school. When she leaves for India, she’s desperate to remove herself from anything that reminds her of the experience and the power it still holds over her.
Ravi is having a hard time imagining his future. Adopted from India as a baby, he’s never felt completely at home in his white community, always playing sidekick to his more popular friend. This trip to India is his chance to find his birth mother and come to terms with why she gave him up.
The trip to Kolkata challenges Kat and Ravi in different ways. For Kat, she must find the strength to help girls younger than herself who have traumatized by human trafficking. For Ravi, he must play detective to find his birth mother and confront the painful truths of why she gave him up. Both realize that coming to terms with the past is the only way to move forward. Their small acts of heroism make a big impact in each other’s lives and the lives of those they love.
Kat is the reigning teen Jiu-Jitsu champion of Northern California. But even her physical skills couldn’t protect her from sexual assault at her high school. When she leaves for India, she’s desperate to remove herself from anything that reminds her of the experience and the power it still holds over her.
Ravi is having a hard time imagining his future. Adopted from India as a baby, he’s never felt completely at home in his white community, always playing sidekick to his more popular friend. This trip to India is his chance to find his birth mother and come to terms with why she gave him up.
The trip to Kolkata challenges Kat and Ravi in different ways. For Kat, she must find the strength to help girls younger than herself who have traumatized by human trafficking. For Ravi, he must play detective to find his birth mother and confront the painful truths of why she gave him up. Both realize that coming to terms with the past is the only way to move forward. Their small acts of heroism make a big impact in each other’s lives and the lives of those they love.