By Nicole Krauss, 2005

ISBN 0393328627

Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.

Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character in that very book. And although she has her hands full -- keeping track of her brother, Bird (who thinks he might be the Messiah), and taking copious notes on How to Survive in the Wild -- she undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family.

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