{"product_id":"have-you-seen-luis-velez","title":"Have You Seen Luis Velez?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Amazon Charts and \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde brings heartwarming authenticity to the story of two strangers who find that kindness is a powerful antidote to fear.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaymond 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: \u003ci\u003eHave you seen Luis Velez?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMildred 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespondent 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1542042364\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781542042369\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hyde, Catherine Ryan\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Lake Union Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lake Union Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2019)","offer_id":46081361182917,"sku":"9781542042369","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781542042369.jpg?v=1776045191","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/have-you-seen-luis-velez","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}