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The book Homeless Bird is about a girl named Koly, Koly is around ages 14 or 15 and her maa and baap (mom and dad) are arranging her marriage, they’re an Indian family so their culture is different from ours; it’s different from ours in their culture the family of the soon to be wife has to send money to the husband's family and dress their daughter in her finest clothes, which she will be married in. They don't wear dresses like we do in America, they wear a dress called a “sari”. Kolys family has to sell some of their things to be able to give Haris family money, Hari is Kolys soon to be husband. The wedding was a strange one, instead of holding the ceremony at the wife's house (Koly) they held the wedding at Haris house

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