Kindle
Edition, 297 pages
Expected publication:
May 21st 2019 by Lake Union Publishing
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 doesn’t belong. Not with his mother’s new family. Not as a
weekend guest with his father and his father’s wife. Not at school, where he’s
an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real
connections: to the feral cat he’s tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old
woman in his building who’s 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 there’s hope if you
have someone to hold on to.
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