Have You Seen Luis Velez?

Written by:
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Narrated by:
Michael Crouch

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
44
Narrator
14
Release Date
May 21, 2019
Duration
11 hours 30 minutes
Summary
An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

New 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?

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.
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Tracy A.

LOVED this book! Such a wonderful read and a thoroughly original story. Perfect narration, I'll be looking for other books read by this person. Cannot recommend highly enough. It's a pleasure to find a book that's not only a page-turner but also leaves you feeling buoyed about humanity.

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Anonymous

Enjoyed the messages of this book. Thought that it was a little bit manipulative, but overall enjoyed it. Good reader!

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Mary T.

Have You Seen Luis Valez is a heartwarming story with so many lessons and positive themes for anyone who reads it, especially young people. As a retired English high school teacher, I am going to recommend to my colleagues who are still teaching that this book be taught to high school students. They will come out of this experience realizing that self-discovery can begin through friendship with the elderly, with a better understanding of the impact of violence on families of victims, of challenges faced by families of divorce who have issues communicating effectively, and with a better understanding of the criminal justice system through a spell-binding courtroom drama. Mary T.

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Anonymous

Oh loved this book. Good story light reading easy listening.

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Anonymous

Riveting and heart-warming as a boy discovers himself through the eyes of an old woman, a Holocaust survivor, who in turn heals from wounds of her past.

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