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Don't Let Me Go
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Don't Let Me Go (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Author) (edit contributors)

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Sometimes a child knows better...Ten-year-old Grace knows her mom loves her, but her mom loves drugs too. And there's only so long Grace can fend off the 'woman from the county' who is threatening to put her into care. Her only hope is...Grown-man, Billy Shine, who hasn't been out of his... read more

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Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors—beautiful manicurist, Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and 9-year-old Grace and her former... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors—beautiful manicurist, Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and 9-year-old Grace and her former addict mother Eileen.

But most of them have never seen Billy. Not until Grace begins to sit outside on the building’s front stoop for hours every day, inches from Billy’s patio. Troubled by this change in the natural order, Billy makes it far enough out onto his porch to ask Grace why she doesn’t sit inside where it’s safe. Her answer: “If I sit inside, then nobody will know I’m in trouble. And then nobody will help me.”

Her answer changes everything.

By the bestselling author of WHEN I FOUND YOU, SECOND HAND HEART, and PAY IT FORWARD, DON’T LET ME GO is the heart-breaking, funny, and life-affirming story of a building full of loners and misfits who come together to help a little girl survive—and thrive—against all odds.

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  • “He put one hand on her head, marveling at the slight warmth of her scalp. An actual live human being. How long had it been since he had touched another person, or been touched in any way? A dozen years? Fifteen?”
    Billy Shine's thoughts
  • “I think people do too much of that. Keeping things from kids because it might upset them. This is her life we're talking about. I think she has a right to hear.”
    Rayleen

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Primarily the apartment building where Grace and her neighbors live as well as surrounding community (at times) to include Grace's school

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Every time Billy looked out his front sliding-glass door, he saw the ugly, gray L.A. winter afternoon move that much closer to dark.

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  1. Catherine Ryan Hyde (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Black Swan Books, Limited
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0552776677
Page Count: 432

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