In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
General Note
"From the author of The Bridge Home"--Dust jacket.
Content Note
Beyond a Patch of Sky - Not Family - Rivers - A Piece of Candy Flies - Houses - Songs - Visitors - Morning Sounds - The Scent of Jasmine - Unhappy Birthday - Promise - Three People - My Father's Mosque - Uncles and Orphanages - Home - Last Words - Behind Me - In the Outside - House - Locks - Unquiet - Snake Man - Hot Coffee - Parrot Girl - Lost - Cast Out - Caste - Making Plans - Sweet and Salty Water - My Self - The Tree Home - Outside the Box - A String of Pearls - Fortune-Telling - Stories and Songs - Money - Tasting a Piece of Sky - Buying a Plane - Caged - Like the Moon - Falling Stars - Calling the Police - Saint Kabir's Song - Bengaluru - At the Mosque - Spying - Happy Family - Taking Charge - Hanging On to Hope - Surrounded - Caught by the Police - The Way Ahead - Time - Trust - Finding my Father - Home - Turning On a Light - A Little More Than We Need - Free - Cousins - Not Perfect - At the Bazaar - Locks and Keys - Truth and True Friends - A School with a Tent - Up and Down - Routines - The Shape of the Sky - Back Behind Bars.