About the Book: A State of Freedom
What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something
better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom
prises open the central, defining events of our century-displacement and
migration-but not as you imagine them. Five characters, in very different
circumstancesfrom a domestic cook in Mumbai to a vagrant and his dancing bear,
and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the
city-find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. Moving
between the reality of this world and the