His Illegal Self His Illegal Self His Illegal Self
by Peter Carey
Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parentswill come back for him. So when a woman arrives at his front door and whisks him away to the jungles of Queensland, he is confronted with the most important questions of his life: Who is his real mother? Did he know hisreal father? And if all he suspects is true, what should he do? In this artful tale of a young boy's journey, His Illegal Self" "lifts your spirit in the most unexpectedway. "From the Trade Paperback edition."