- Title:
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Have You Seen Luis Velez?
- Written by:
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Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Read by:
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Michael Crouch
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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11 hours 32 minutes
- Published:
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May 21 2019
- Available Date:
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May 21 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781978668812
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Brilliance audio
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Bestseller
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.
When she could no longer find beauty in the world, he helped her see it.
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 92-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 neighbourhood 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.