Brinda Charry "The East Indian: a Novel" PDF

Inspired by a historical figure, an exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian subcontinent to arrive in Colonial America—for readers of Esi Edugyan & Yaa Gyasi.
Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped & transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company's outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he & his fellow indentured servants—boys like himself, men from Africa, a mad woman from London—must work the tobacco plantations.

Orphaned & afraid, Tony initially longs for home. But as he adjusts to his new environment, finding companionship & even love, he can envision a life for himself after servitude. His dream: to become a medicine man, or a physician's assistant, an expert on roots & herbs, a dispenser of healing compounds.