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by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Lake Union Publishing | May 21st, 2019
Paperback: $14.95 | ISBN: 978-1542042369
eBook: $4.99 | ASIN: B07JZ3G2WQ
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From New York
Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes HAVE YOU SEEN
LUIS VELEZ? (Lake Union, on sale May 21st,
2019), a moving new novel about two
strangers who find that kindness is a powerful antidote to fear.
Raymond Jaffe doesn’t feel like he belongs. His mother and stepfather
don’t understand him, and his stepsisters pretty much ignore him; he only sees
his dad and his new wife every other weekend; and after his best friend Andre
moves away, he’ll have no one left at school, either. But one question, uttered
from down the hall on the second floor of his apartment building, is enough to
give him a new sense of purpose: Have you seen Luis Velez?
The question comes from Mildred “Millie” Gutermann, a
92-year-old resident in Raymond’s building whom he’s never met until that
moment. He finds it eerie how she is looking toward him, but not actually at him…until he realizes that she is
blind. Luis Velez, he soon learns, had helped Millie run errands and go to the
grocery store at least three times a week for nearly four years—until very
recently, when he seemed to vanish into thin air. Millie, unable to go to the
store or the bank by herself, is now almost entirely out of food. Without a
second thought, Raymond takes her by the arm and leads her to the grocery store
in the first of what will become many trips together.
But
helping his new friend Millie isn’t enough for Raymond. He can tell she is
shaken and worried by Luis’s disappearance, and he decides to find out what
happened, even if it means knocking on the door of every man named Luis Velez
in New York. As “The Luis Project” takes off, Raymond wonders if he’ll ever
find the right one. He fears that something bad could have happened to Luis—or
that nothing bad has happened at all, and Luis simply doesn’t want to help
Millie anymore—and he worries about how he’ll break that kind of news to her.
But while Raymond desperately searches for Luis, he realizes that Millie is
helping him find something else: hope for the future.
