Where Three Oceans Meet, Rajani LaRocca
Where Three Oceans Meet, Rajani LaRocca
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Where Three Oceans Meet

Author: Rajani LaRocca

Narrator: Subhadra Newton

Unabridged: 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/12/2021


Synopsis

Sejal, Mommy, and Pati travel together to the southern tip of India. Along the way, they share meals, visit markets, and catch up with old friends. For Pati, the trip retraces spaces she knows well. For Mommy, it’s a return to the place she grew up. For Sejal, it’s a discovery of new sights and sounds. The family finds their way to Kanyakumari, where three oceans meet, delighting in making it to the end of the earth together. This own-voices story celebrates the beauty of India and the enduring love of family.

About Rajani LaRocca

Rajani LaRocca is a physician and an author of books for young readers, such as Midsummer’s Mayhem and Seven Golden Rings. Born in Bangalore, India, she immigrated to the United States when she was very young and now lives with her family in eastern Massachusetts. For more information, visit RajaniLaRocca.com.

About Archana Sreenivasan

Archana Sreenivasan is a freelance illustrator. Her previous picture books include Desert Girl, Monsoon Boy, and Seven Golden Rings. She lives with her family in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit ArchanaSreenivasan.com.

About Subhadra Newton

Subhadra Newton is an expressive voiceover artist, singer, and yoga and meditation teacher. She has developed her skills through a lifelong love of the performing arts and contemplative practices as a channel for healing. Concerned with raising supportive awareness of neurodiversity and autism in girls and women, she is also interested in astrology, numerology, and herbalism.


Reviews

Where Three Oceans meet is about a family that makes the decision to visit Kanyakumari which is the point where three oceans meet. While this story at first appears to simply focus on family members taking a trip, it becomes so much more. The vibrant colors and illustrations capture the various plac......more

Join a grandmother, mother, and granddaughter that travel much of India together to ultimately visit Kanyakumari, the very Southern tip of India where three oceans meet. This book is a wonderful multigenerational tale about an Indian-American family reconnecting with their family in India and making......more

Goodreads review by Rajani

This is a story about a young girl who travels with her mother and grandmother to Kanyakumari at the very tip of India, where they say three oceans meet—the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and the Arabian Sea. It's a story about the sights and sounds and foods and people they encounter along the wa......more

Goodreads review by Carrie

On the surface, this book is about a seemingly simple journey that a grandmother, mother, and granddaughter take to visit the "place where three oceans meet" at the tip of India. But during this journey, the story winds through deep themes of family bonds, immigration and what it means to belong to......more


Quotes

A satisfyingly poignant close against expansive views from Kanyakumari concludes this warm intergenerational tale, which emphasizes how love transcends distance and endures across continents.