An award-winning Israeli authorтАЩs novel тАЬis a cross between Run Lola Run and Oliver Twist . . . [with] an urgency that becomes almost unbearableтАЭ (New Yorker).
David GrossmanтАЩs Someone to Run With tells the story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem, portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.
When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring him into contact with street kids and criminals, and a talented young singer, Tamar, engaged on her own mission: to rescue a teenage drug addict.
A runaway bestseller in Israel, in the words of the Christian Science Monitor: тАЬItтАЩs time for Americans to fall in love with Someone to Run With.тАЭ
тАЬPart urban survival adventure, part YA romance, and part mystery.тАЭ тАФBooklist
тАЬGrossmanтАЩs most entertaining book yet.тАЭ тАФKirkus Reviews, starred review