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

And then, one day, he was lost.

This story takes you on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes'camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the streets of Memphis. And along the way, you are shown a true miracle - that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.