William David Thomas

He also has difficulty connecting with people, and a persistent habit of humming. Making a fresh start, he and his grandmother move to a small village in northern New York. But when Allen encounters an old, captive llama at a winter festival, his life is turned upside down.

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He recalls a language he didn’t know he could speak. He learns that everything he was ever told about his youngest years and his parents deaths was a lie. When the llama’s life is threatened, Allen vows to free it. Together they begin a desperate trek, a journey on which Allen must wrestle with the truth about his past while struggling to survive in the snow and bitter cold of a mountain wilderness.