The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-oc cupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Sa lvador intersect in this ambitious\, intricate novel about war and immigra tion.
\nVienna\, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his fathe r disappeared during Kristallnacht-the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to the United Kingdom\, which he boarded alon e\, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona\, 201 9. Eight decades later\, Anita Diaz\, a blind seven-year-old girl\, and he r mother board another train\, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and s eeking refuge in the United States. However\, their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy\, and Anita finds herself alone at a cam p in Nogales. She escapes through her trips to Azabahar\, a magical world of the imagination she created with her sister back home. Anita's case is assigned to Selena Duran\, a young social worker who enlists the help of a promising lawyer from one of San Francisco's top law firms. Together they discover that Anita has another family member in the United States: Letic ia Cordero\, who is employed at the home of now eighty-six-year-old Samuel Adler\, linking these two lives.
\nSpanning time and place\, The Wi nd Knows My Name is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make a nd a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers -and never stop dreaming.
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