In My NeighborhoodA search for one's place in the world provides the storyline: The narrator, a drum, feels like an outcast because he alone unlike his family and friends cannot play a melody. Like all kids growing up, he must find out where he fits. The narrator, a drum, wanders the streets of Coelho's vividly realized city of musical instruments where even the birds sprout miniature trumpets from their mouths feeling like an outcast because he alone, among all his