Chapters 1-3 Summary

The police have arrested 13 year-old Capricorn Anderson for driving a vehicle underage. Handcuffed and worried, he answers their questions while watching the ambulance people load his grandmother Rain into the back of an ambulance. He tells them she broke her hip falling out of a plum tree. As they live alone in a hippy commune called Garland, he had no choice, but to drive her to the hospital. Luckily, his grandmother taught him how to drive at the age of eight. The police man takes off his cuffs and allows him to leave with Rain.

At the hospital, Rain screams at the staff that can't keep her at the hospital. She has to look after Cap. Cap is surprised to hear her so angry. Her philosophy has always been that angry people are only ever angry at themselves. He doesn't realize...