Summary

A note at the beginning of the book talks about how bumblebees are impossible. Their bodies defy the laws of nature, and their wings move so quickly that they create their own little tornadoes.

In Chapter 1, the narrator states “The wind came from her mother” (3). Her mother always created chaos whereas Red tries to keep hers under her skin. Red notices, however, that “the more she swallowed down her own storms… the angrier the sky above her became” (3). Red is in a home in Denver where a woman who calls herself The Mom tells Mrs. Anders that she cannot keep Red anymore. Everything Red, a foster child, owns is in an orange backpack. The wind tries to get out as Red tries to suppress it. The Mom says that she needs to protect her three sons. Red gets into Mrs. Anders' car. There...