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A tale of the explosive and redemptive powers of the imagination, set during the year Rudyard Kipling lived in Vermont and wrote The Jungle Books.
In 1892, at the age of twenty-six, Rudyard Kipling found its way to Vermont virtually penniless, with a newly pregnant wife and the germ of a story about a feral child who was raised by the pack of wolves. Having fled the literary high life in London, he hoped to discover a quiet corner where to raise a family and work, where he could build a sanctuary that can offer him refuge from the scrutiny incurred by his burgeoning fame and the wounds of his own troubled past.
From this literary footnote, Victoria Vinton brings alive Kipling’s early years in Bombay, where he lived as the pampered son of a well-connected British family, and explores the repercussions of the abandonment he felt when, at age six, he was severed from his family and delivered to live in a foster home in England that he later dubbed “The House of Desolation.” She shows how those experience formed the foundation of his art, how from this cauldron of comfort and pain he wrote The Jungle Books and created his most enduring character, Mowgli.
Mixing fact and invention, Vinton parallels Kipling’s story start of his neighbors, the Connollys, who are forced to question the decisions they have got manufactured in the wake of Kipling’s occurrence in their lives. You can find eleven-year-old Joe Connolly, who finds himself attracted to Kipling and his stories, seeing in the adventures of Mowgli a template for his own escape. You can find Jack, his father, who views Kipling’s influence over his son as challenging to his very sense of self. And there is Addie, Jack’s wife, who must embrace and assimilate these changes in order to hold on to her family, confronted by the unsettling power of the imagination.
