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Remi: An eight-year-old boy discovers he has no family. His life then becomes a poignant cycle of hope and despair—hope for a family, and the crushing weight of loss and the shattering of that hope. He encounters his foster mother, Barbarin, his teacher, Vitalis, and his animal troupe, Mrs. Milligan and her son, and finally, the gardener, Akin, and his children. Yet, he refuses to succumb to despair. With remarkable courage, he embarks on a quest to find his family, guided by the values of love, friendship, loyalty, and patience. He becomes a hero in the eyes of millions of children and young adults who have read this book and witnessed a life that is profoundly authentic.
Remi Without a Family: A novel that teaches both young and old that life is not won through struggle, and underscores the vital importance of family in society.
It is an imagined journey that allows each reader, as they follow Remi’s trail, to experience the agony of losing their family, until they realize, after a long and arduous journey, that it is one of the most precious things in this world. Do we need to live through the experience of great literature to truly understand it? And if loss is a path to meaning, isn’t literature a path to life?
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