A Stolen Boy, a Great Journey, and a Tomorrow Worth Fighting For

Central Spain, 1896. An eight-year-old boy lives in a poor neighborhood, alone with his hard-drinking and sometimes abusive mother -- the only family he has ever known -- only to learn from an overheard conversation that she is not his mother at all. She is his kidnapper. With the help of a bedroom window and an often-climbed rain pipe; by the time she finishes her bottle, her stolen boy is more than a mile away. With nothing to go on but what he'd overheard, he's on his own -- searching for a real mother he's never known who lives in a faraway land called Italy. "I must go to Italy -- wherever that is... "

Southern California, 1966. Tom Delaney is an unsuccessful and disillusioned reporter who sets out on a routine interview for the back pages of the local newspaper. Another fiftieth wedding anniversary. Who cares! But he stumbles onto what might be the story of a lifetime as the old man there unfolds a riveting tale from his childhood in Spain seventy years earlier. Abduction! Escape! An epic journey of adventure, hardship, discovery and growth. Could this finally be the story that Tom has yearned for all his career? And might this project, and this time spent with the old man and his subtle wisdom, be the catalyst to help him face his own demons?

By the author of the compelling memoir An Ocelot in an Underwear Drawer, this gripping novel, inspired by a true story, transports the reader into a multi-timeline coming-of-age adventure that's both richly entertaining and deeply thought-provoking.

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