The release date for the English version of 'Have You Seen Luis Velez?' by
Catherine Ryan Hyde is May 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestseller.
Catherine Ryan Hyde, a New York Times bestselling novelist, infuses a touching genuineness into the tale of two strangers who discover that compassion is a potent remedy for fear.
Raymond Jaffe has a sense of alienation. Not with this new family of his mother's. Not spending the weekend with his father and his father's spouse. Not where he is the outsider at school. Raymond's closest friends are the wild cat he tamed and a blind 92-year-old woman who lives in his building. She has introduced herself with an inquisitive Luis Velez, have you seen him?
Since her caregiver vanished, German Jew Mildred Gutermann—who barely avoided the Holocaust—has been left alone. She turns to Raymond for assistance, and while he searches for Luis, a close and surprising bond develops between the two.
Dejected over Luis's passing, Mildred withdraws even more from a community that is turning into a haven of hatred and terror. Raymond, determined not to let her give up, shows her that there is hope as long as you have someone to cling to and that there is a mirror image of profound generosity for every horrible deed the world commits. Mildred also confirms this to Raymond.