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    Have You Seen Luis Velez?
    Have You Seen Luis Velez?
    Have You Seen Luis Velez?
    Audiobook11 hours

    Have You Seen Luis Velez?

    Written by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Narrated by Michael Crouch

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 21, 2019
    ISBN9781721378371
    Have You Seen Luis Velez?
    Author

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of thirty-three published books. Her bestselling 1999 novel, Pay It Forward, adapted into a major Warner Bros. motion picture, made the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults list and was translated into more than two dozen languages for distribution in more than thirty countries. Her novels Becoming Chloe and Jumpstart the World were included on the ALA’s Rainbow List; Jumpstart the World was also a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards and won Rainbow Awards in two categories. The Language of Hoofbeats won a Rainbow Award. More than fifty of her short stories have been published in many journals, including the Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and the Sun, and in the anthologies Santa Barbara Stories and California Shorts, as well as the bestselling anthology Dog Is My Co-Pilot. Her short fiction received honorable mention in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, a second-place win for the Tobias Wolff Award, and nominations for Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Three have also been cited in Best American Short Stories. Hyde is the founder and former president of the Pay It Forward Foundation. As a professional public speaker, she has addressed the National Conference on Education, twice spoken at Cornell University, met with AmeriCorps members at the White House, and shared a dais with Bill Clinton. An avid equestrian, photographer, and traveler, she lives in California.

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    • 5/5
      So heartfelt from this 77 year old woman. Thank you very much.

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    • 4/5
      Wonderful story, lots of important deep ideas to ponder. Loved the unlikely friendship of Raymond and Mrs. G. May we all have a friend like that in our lives.

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    • 3/5
      The recording was terrible. It had a lot of the ingredients for a great book. But the recording skipped sections and didn’t hold my bookmarks.

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      This was a beautiful book! I laughed and cried and at times, worried. I just kept wanting to know more, learn what would happen next. It’s an unusual story but, in my opinion, a beautiful one. Enjoy!

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      Powerful and thought provoking with excellent narration
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      One of the best stories I've read. Very thought provoking about racism, kindness and generosity.

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    • 5/5
      The voices of the characters were performed so well and the uniqueness of the story itself seemed to draw me into Raymond’s life…experiencing what he did. Also there were lots of words of wisdom that we could and should apply to our daily lives.

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