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This award-winning title explores themes of resilience and hope through the journey of its compelling characters. Set against a backdrop of personal and societal challenges, the narrative delves into the transformative power of love and friendship. With a focus on moral integrity and the pursuit of justice, the story resonates with readers, offering inspiration and insight into the human experience. The author skillfully weaves together emotional depth and thought-provoking scenarios, making it a significant contribution to contemporary literature.

One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief for his back pocket. Welles kept it with him that day, and just about every day to come; it became a fixture and his signature. Welles became a volunteer with the local fire department in New York. When the Twin Towers fell, Welles's parents had no idea what happened to him. In the unbearable days that followed, they came to accept that he would never come home. But the mystery of his final hours persisted. Eight months after the attacks, however, Welles's mother read a news account from several survivors, badly hurt on the 78th floor of the South Tower, who said they and others had been led to safety by a stranger, carrying a woman on his back, down nearly twenty flights of stairs. After leading them down, the young man turned around. "I'm going back up," was all he said. The survivors didn't know his name, but despite the smoke and panic, one of them remembered a single detail clearly: the man was wearing a red bandanna.-- adapted from book jacket