New York Times best-seller Karina Yan Glaser brings everyone’s favorite Harlem family back in this poignant
fourth novel in the “delightful and heartwarming” (New York Times Book Review) Vanderbeekers series.
When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping
Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon—and making sure the mysterious
person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the
true identity of the person making a home in the garden’s shed, their world turns upside
down. As they attempt to make the world a better place, Isa, Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and
Laney learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation.
Return to 141st Street with the biracial Vanderbeeker family as they show how friends
can be family and families can be unconventional in this heartfelt novel that will have you
cheering to the end.