Life of Pi: Why This Philosophical Survival Tale Matters

What This Book Is About Life of Pi tells the story of Piscine “Pi” Patel, a 16-year-old Indian boy who survives a shipwreck that kills his family and most of the zoo animals they were transporting to Canada. Stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean, Pi finds himself sharing his small refuge with Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. What follows is an epic tale of survival that tests the limits of human endurance, faith, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of trauma.