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Life of Pi: Let’s hope this kitchen sink floats
January 17, 2013 – 10:43 AM | 25 Comments
<I>Life of Pi</I>: Let’s hope this kitchen sink floats

A teenage boy named Pi, shipwrecked on his way from India to Quebec with his family and their zoo animals, spends more than half a year at sea, “sharing” a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger …