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The Rootkeeper's House
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At 2:17 in the morning, Mira receives an eleven-second voice note from her eighty-two-year-old grandfather in Kerala:
They have come for the school. Do not sell the roots to pay for the leaves.
When Elias disappears, Mira leaves Chicago and returns to the family home, where a dispute over an abandoned school and its surrounding land has awakened secrets buried for generations. Inside an old ledger are altered birth records, missing children, concealed donations, false psychiatric diagnoses, and the emblem of a golden tusker linking respected institutions to a disturbing history.
As the family follows the evidence across Kerala, Goa, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and the forests of the Western Ghats, its carefully preserved family tree begins to fracture. Blood relationships are questioned, forgotten women reclaim their voices, and children denied education discover lawful doors into a different future.
At the center stands Elias-a teacher, father, and keeper of uncomfortable truths-who must confront the difference between protecting a family and imprisoning it within secrecy.
The Rootkeeper's House is a sweeping contemporary family mystery about education, conscience, institutional power, spiritual courage, and the complicated inheritance carried through generations. Richly rooted in Kerala's monsoon landscape, it asks a haunting question: What does it truly mean to remember your roots when those roots have nourished both love and harm?
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