With keen attention to the facts of the natural world, this book tells the lyrical, deceptively simple story of a baby robin who is hatched in the back yard of a longtime bird-watcher. The author follows Robin Ray's struggle to survive the perils of predators, her sometimes troubling conversations with elder robins, the harrowing, liberating journey of migration, and the constant presence of the loving bird-watcher, concluding with an enduring vision of the joyous, fragile community of life on Earth.