Lake Union Publishing
June 2019
On Sale: May 21, 2019
320 pages ISBN: 1542042364 EAN: 9781542042369 Kindle: B07JZ3G2WQ Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a moving novel about two strangers who find that kindness is a powerful antidote to fear.
Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesnβt belong. Not with his motherβs new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his fatherβs wife. Not at school, where heβs an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat heβs tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building whoβs introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez?
Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, has been alone since her caretaker disappeared. She turns to Raymond for help, and as he tries to track Luis down, a deep and unexpected friendship blossoms between the two.
Despondent at the loss of Luis, Mildred isolates herself further from a neighborhood devolving into bigotry and fear. Determined not to let her give up, Raymond helps her see that for every terrible act the world delivers, there is a mirror image of deep kindness, and Mildred helps Raymond see that thereβs hope if you have someone to hold on to.
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