Forward Me Back to You

Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
Meeting during a summer service trip in Kolkata while working with survivors of human trafficking, a young jujitsu champion with a haunted past and an adopted boy who faces learning about his Indian heritage with trepidation discover the complicated entanglements of justice and healing. By the author of the National Book Award-nominated You Bring the Distant Near. Simultaneous eBook.
The highly anticipated next YA novel from the author of National Book Award-nominated You Bring the Distant Near explores new love, tenuous friendships, and the dark underworld of human trafficking.
The award-winning author of You Bring the Distant Near explores identity, homecoming, and the legacy of assault in this personal and ambitious new novel. Katina King is the reigning teen jujitsu champion of Northern California, but she’s having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past.Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is reluctant to take on his future. If he can’t find his roots, how can he possibly plan ahead?Robin and Kat meet in the most unlikely of places—a summer service trip to Kolkata to work with survivors of human trafficking. As bonds build between the travelmates, Robin and Kat discover that justice and healing are tangled, like the pain of their pasts and the hope for their futures. You can’t rewind life; sometimes you just have to push play.In turns heart wrenching, beautiful, and buoyant, Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You focuses its lens on the ripple effects of violence—across borders and generations—and how small acts of heroism can break the cycle.This title has Common Core connections.