Homeless Bird Themes

If home is where the heart is, then Koly's thumper sure must be roaming in Homeless Birds. Our main gal moves around quite a bit in the book—but it isn't not just her physical relocations that ma...

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage—or so it usually goes (at least according to the song). In Homeless Bird, however, none of these take place in the righ...

Spoiler alert: We love literature. So (duh) we were rocking out to the talk of poetry and books in Homeless Bird. For Koly, literature becomes a way to escape her present (horrible) life. She liste...

There must be a lot of pants on fire in Homeless Birds—it seems like everyone is lying in this book, especially Koly's cruel mother-in law, Mrs. Mehta. First she hides the fact that her son is te...

Gender is a big theme that is a little difficult to nail down because it informs the text without being explicitly addressed all the much. There are definitely instances in Homeless Bird where we g...

If there's one thing we know about Koly in Homeless Bird it's that she always perseveres, no matter what odds are piled up against her. Think about the difficulty she goes through. She's a young wi...

Ah, dreams—everyone has at least one, which is why posters with kittens and inspirational quotes exist in the first place. In Homeless Bird, Koly's no exception to the everyone-has-a-dream rule....

Did you notice how everyone in Homeless Bird is always talking about the importance of tradition? Koly can't meet her hubby before the wedding because of tradition. She's considered worthless once...