The Journey Between Two Continents · Book One
The Journey Between Two Continents · Book One
A novel inspired by true events · Written in English
The Journey
Between Two Continents
BOOK ONE · JUBIN JOSEPH
One promise. Two worlds. A journey towards belonging.
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She prayed by the sea for one son who would stay
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The prayer that began Sam's story.
Four sons she never held. One pilgrimage to the sea. “One son. Just one. Let him stay.”
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A story of home, family and purpose
What does it mean to find your way home?
“Have you eaten?”
A simple question from a mother. Yet within it lives the warmth of home: a village in Kerala, the rhythm of monsoon rain, and the family that remains close even across continents.
Sam leaves his village in India at eleven. Years later, he becomes an aerospace engineer and builds a life in Europe. But a promise to his father sets him on an unexpected path—from the world he worked so hard to enter to the quiet, candlelit atmosphere of Lourdes, France.
Across two continents and two very different worlds, Sam begins to confront the questions that distance can never silence: What do we carry from home? What do we owe the people we love? And where do we truly belong?
Within these pages
◇ The bonds of family and the meaning of sacrifice
◇ The experience of leaving home and building a life elsewhere
◇ Faith, memory and the search for a deeper purpose
◇ The promise that can shape the direction of a lifetime
From the book
Two passages
From the Prologue · The Drawer
Some dreams are never lost. They only wait in a drawer.
There is a drawer Sam closed when he was eighteen.
Inside it were drawings he had once believed would become his future. He didn’t throw them away. He simply stopped opening it.
From Chapter One · The Child of a Prayer
His mother looked at his arms. She looked at his face. She did not ask what had happened. Not yet.
“Have you eaten?”
“No, Amma.”
“Then wash. Eat. Then you can tell me why you look like a buffalo.”
“It would take him almost forty years, three loves, a war, a funeral and a grotto at the foot of the mountains to understand what that was.”
From the Prologue
Chapter One · on this page
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The illustrated line that opens Chapter One: He was thirteen. The sky made him a promise.
There were four of them before Sam.
Four sons his mother never held.
Each one came quietly, stayed a few months, and left before anyone could see his face. No names. No graves. Only a silence in the house that everybody heard.
After the fourth, the doctors shook their heads. In the village, some of the women lowered their voices when his mother passed. Some wombs are only meant for daughters, they said, kindly, not knowing how heavy such words are for the one who has to carry them.
His mother said nothing. She lowered her eyes, kept walking, and held the words inside, the way she held everything.
She already had a daughter. Tessa was two then, a little girl who followed her from room to room holding the end of her sari. His mother loved her with her whole heart.
But she could not forget the four who had not stayed.
So she made a pilgrimage to a church of Mother Mary by the sea.
Sam has often tried to picture her there. A young woman from a village no one had heard of, sitting among thousands of strangers, each carrying something they could no longer carry alone. Candles. Salt in the air. The sound of waves somewhere beyond the walls.
No one knows the words she used. Only what she asked for.
One son. Just one. Let him stay.
A month later, she knew she was carrying him.
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He was born in winter, into a Catholic family in Kerala, in the cool months when the mornings come wrapped in mist.
His grandmother said the night was so still that the whole little hospital seemed to be holding its breath. Then, through the silence, a cry. Loud, angry, and very much alive.
His mother did not look at his face first. She looked at his chest, rising and falling, the way you watch a candle in a window to make sure the wind has not taken it.
Then she began to cry, and she did not stop for a while.
His father was outside on a wooden bench in the corridor. He was not a man who prayed out loud. But that night, the nurse said, he sat on that bench with his head down and his hands together, and he did not move until someone came to tell him it was a boy.
He went in, looked at his son, and touched one finger to the small closed fist.
He didn’t say anything. He was already a man who said the important things with his hands.
The rest of Chapter One continues in the free PDF above — and the whole story in the ebook.
What readers say
“some scenes are written so well that I felt them in my chest. Many lines are worth underlining. The ending stayed with me.”
“I loved the small details most. His mother asks "Have you eaten?" in almost every scene, and it shows motherly love.”
— Camelia, @solitudeandbooks on Instagram
A note from the author
“This story grew from the distance between the place I came from and the place life led me. It is about the promises we carry, the people who shape us, and the search for a place to belong.”
Jubin Joseph
Author · Aerospace engineer · Airbus alumnus · Lives in Lourdes, France
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Some journeys take us far from home.
Others help us understand where home has always been.
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