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02694aam a2200433 i 4500 001 8D9CA9FA664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 210706t20222022nyua 000 f eng d 020 $a 9781950994342 020 $a 1950994341 035 $a (OCoLC)1259049665 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d ORX $d ABJ $d OCLCO $d IDO $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3558.O34634 $b P76 2022 100 1 $a Hoffman, Roy, $d 1953- $e author. 245 14 $a The promise of the pelican : $b a novel / $c Roy Hoffman. 250 $a First Arcade CrimeWise Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Arcade CrimeWise, $c [2022] 300 $a 304 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "At once a literary crime novel and an intergenerational family drama, The Promise of the Pelican is set in the multicultural South, where justice might depend on the color of your skin and your immigration status. Hank Weinberg is a modern day Atticus Finch, recently retired as a defense attorney in Mobile, Alabama, and a Holocaust survivor, who fled the Nazis as a young child. With his daughter in rehab, he's now taking care of his special needs grandson. Mourning his dead wife, spending mornings fishing on the pier with other octogenarians, he passes the rest of his days watching over his sweet grandson with the help of Lupita, a young Honduran babysitter. When her brother Julio, an undocumented immigrant, is accused of murder, Hank must return to the courtroom to defend him while also trying to save his daughter and grandson's life from spinning out of control. The Promise of the Pelican takes its title from the legend that a pelican will pierce its own breast for blood to feed its starving chicks, a metaphor for one old man who risks all to save the vulnerable." -- $c From publisher's description. 500 $a "An Arcade CrimeWise Book" -- From title page. 650 0 $a Retirees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Immigrants $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Legal stories. 650 7 $a Immigrants. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967712 650 7 $a Legal stories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00995558 650 7 $a Murder. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01029781 650 7 $a Retirees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01096254 651 0 $a Mobile (Ala.) $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Alabama $z Mobile. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206367 655 2 $a Fictional Work $0 (DNLM)D022922 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8D9CA9FA664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search