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Have you seen Luis Velez? : a novel / Catherine Ryan Hyde.

by Hyde, Catherine Ryan.

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Lake Union Publishing, 2019.

Teenage boys -- Fiction.

Older people -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Social isolation -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.

9781542042369 (trade pbk.)

307 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes book club questions.

"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."--Publisher.

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

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