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HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE DARK - DEREK B MILL...

'Compelling and deeply satisfying.' Booklist'[A] terrific coming-of-age story . . . Readers
will root for Sheldon  a memorable survivor  every step of the way.' Publishers Weekly'Miller
juggles each element effortlessly. His character portraits are indelible  often heartbreaking.
At times this novel moved me to tears' The New York Times____________________________It's 1936
war is brewing  tempers are running high  and by his thirteenth birthday  Sheldon Horowitz has
been orphaned - twice. While a terrible accident took his mother  Sheldon is convinced that his
father was murdered. But no-one else thinks so  least of all the police.Determined to track
down the culprit  and leaving behind his only friend Lenny  Sheldon moves to Hartford 
Connecticut to live with his uncle. He is told to keep his head down and forget the past. But
that just isn't his style.Fired up by his politically-minded cousin Abe (and quite possibly in
love with other cousin Mirabelle)  he sets out on a quest to discover the truth that will take
him from industrial Hartford to a ritzy hotel in the Catskills  back to his childhood home and
finally on to New York.Sheldon quickly discovers that it's a jungle out there  and to survive 
he will have to learn to make his own luck. Fortunately  that's one thing he's very good at...A
tragic-comic coming of age story like no other  for fans of All The Light We Cannot See  and
Michael Chabon's The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

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