| Record Number |
838405 |
| ISBN |
9781542042369 (paperback) |
| Author |
Hyde, Catherine Ryan author. |
| Title |
Have you seen Luis Velez? : a novel / Catherine Ryan Hyde. |
| Publisher/Date |
Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2019] |
| ©2019 |
| Pagination etc. |
307 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents note |
Includes book club questions. |
| Summary Note |
Raymond Jaffe feels like he does not belong. Not with his mothers new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his fathers wife. Not at school, where hes an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat hes tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building whos 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 theres hope if you have someone to hold on to. |
| Subject |
Holocaust survivors -- Fiction |
| Friendship -- Fiction |
| Missing persons -- Fiction |
| Stepfamilies -- Fiction |
| Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
| Shelf Location |
F HYDE |
