Have You Seen Luis Velez by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Hyde’s characters are often one-dimensional and her plots simplistic, but the relationship between a cast-off young man and a disillusioned elderly woman who has watched her neighborhood devolve into a place of bigotry and fear, is like putting a warm blanket over 2020. Could I look more hopefully into the face of 2021? Maybe -- if I let myself believe that the good people in HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ exist outside of its pages.