Book description
Jeffrey has lived all his fourteen years in India. He eats, behaves,
talks, thinks like an Indian; he has an Indian name, Ganesh. He
is Indian. Forced to go and live with his aunt in America when
his father dies, he is a foreigner. He doesn't understand American
manners, or meals, or the way his schoolmates, always so noisy and
restless, think.
But Jeffrey does understand that a place to belong is important. And
when the State decides to build a highway through his aunt's house -
the house Jeffrey's great-grandfather built, where she and his father
were born - he knows it must be stopped.
To do that, he must persuade Americans to think like Indians. A tall
order - but Ganesh the Elephant God is, after all, the Remover of
Obstacles . . .
Malcolm Joseph Bosse was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926. He served
in the U. S Navy and taught English at the City College of New York
before becoming an author of both young adult and adult novels. He died
in 2002.
