“Someone will come for you personally, but first you must open your heart . .”

Once, in a house on Egypt Street, presently there lived a china rabbit called Edward Tulane. The rabbit was happy with himself, and for good reason: he was possessed by a woman named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely.

And then, one day, he was lost.

Kate DiCamillo needs us on an extraordinary journey, through the depths from the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the very best of the garbage heap towards the fireside of the hoboes’ camp, from your bedside of an ailing child towards the bustling roads of Memphis. And along the way, we are demonstrated a true magic — that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to reduce, and to like again.