'I am the mother of a disabled child who did not fit into the school system. She was a child who made "mistakes" that the school system did not tolerate. The principal of an alternative school informed us that "this kind of child" could not be admitted. In that one moment, my daughter went from being a child to "this kind of child." Srilata's daughter was the book's protagonist when she began working on it. But she quickly realised that she couldn't stop telling her daughter's story. She became acutely aware of the larger story of what we frame as 'disability' with each step forward (or back).