This is the true story of a journalist who inherits an old suitcase belonging to his late grandfather. In it, amongst the correspondence and keepsakes, he finds an article cut from a newspaper in 1933 containing an ad from an anonymous businessman who wanted to help his community by giving out small amounts of cash to those who needed it. That anonymous businessman, "B. Virdot", was the author's grandfather and the suitcase also contains the letters written in response to the ad. Truly heartwarming story of generosity in the depths of the Depression. The letters written in response to the ad are heartbreaking in their descriptions of extreme poverty and yet hopeful of the future. The author researched the families and stories of many of them to weave a gripping narrative of the times.
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