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Twelve-year-old Lily helps to evacuate her granny from a nursing home during Hurricane Sandy and, in the chaos, loses Granny's old Montblanc pen. Lily's search for the pen in post-storm New York alternates with flashbacks to Granny's activities in the French Resistance during WWII. Carelli provides an interesting juxtaposition of different types of danger and valor across the decades.