Monkey: An Indian Tale — J.C. Andrijeski

Tugli lives happily in a metal box on a friendly street where vendors hawk wares and a Buddhist stupa sits at his back. Everything pretty much goes the same way for a long time, until one day, the pickle lady stops delivering the pickles. After that, a disgruntled monkey, a three-legged dog and a kindly old woman pretty much disrupt the course of Tugli's life forever, (buddhism, India, fantasy, mythology, folk tale, humor, travel story, Kipling)