{"product_id":"have-you-seen-luis-velez","title":"Have You Seen Luis Velez?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-text\"\u003e4.4 Stars on Goodreads\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-text\"\u003eAn Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-text\"\u003eNew York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde brings heartwarming authenticity to the story of 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-text\"\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product-text\"\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyde, Catherine Ryan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Literature","offer_id":62537157017971,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0977\/4062\/0147\/files\/300.jpg?v=1771094902","url":"https:\/\/waxpaperbooks.com\/products\/have-you-seen-luis-velez","provider":"Waxpaper","version":"1.0","type":"link"}