Josef is a Jewish boy living in the 1930s in Nazi Germany. With the fear of being sent to concentration camps, he and his family board a ship headed for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994.
the reason they do this is because when you are reading the story you dont want a 500 or 600 page book with 3/4 being about how he grew up the author thought it irrelivant
