Acknowledgments
My sincere thanks go first and foremost to my family for the memories, both good and bad, that in the end taught me the value of home and culture. In the telling of this story, the one most deserving of my appreciation is Scott Sawyer, who framed the entire narrative and told it in the simplest but most reflective terms. He worked hard to make this book a reality. We traveled together through the cities of my youth so that he could feel the heartbeat of my years growing up in India. I could tell when he wrote it that he well understood what I was trying to recall of those years.
A special word of thanks to Zondervan’s John Sloan, who patiently nursed this book along until it came to the place that it is now. As always, my agent and representative Robert Wolgemuth was my best cheerleader, encouraging and affirming me along the way. But the best of all that I can say is to Margie, my wife, who not only understood the challenge I had before me but helped edit in a way that kept my voice yet smoothened the rough spots. The final edits were done by Dirk Buursma, and I deeply appreciate his work to complete the task.