Okay, I will try and make this an elevator pitch for an elevator that is like only 25 floors. So Not Nothing is the story of Alex, who's a 12 year old boy who did something truly bad. I'm not going to tell you what it is. And as a result, he gets in trouble with the juvenile justice system. And while he's awaiting a hearing, a social worker has the idea to have him volunteer at an assisted living facility for the summer. He absolutely does not want to be there. He is angry at everyone, resentful. Really hates the people there, particularly the other young do-gooder volunteering there, this bossy girl named Maya-Jade. So one day, he sort of finds himself in the room of Josey, who is the narrator of the book. He is 107 years old. He is a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, and he has not spoken in five years. He is so old he is run out of things to say and people to say them to, and he is waiting to die. But when Alex lands in his room, for reasons neither one of them initially understand, he speaks, and he starts to tell Alex a story of this woman named Olka, who used to work for Joseys's family's department store in Krakow. And when they first meet, Olka is kind of embittered and frustrated. She's really smart, but she's gone as far as she can in school, and she is working as a seamstress. And she says something bigoted that could and should have gotten her fired, but for various reasons, he doesn't fire her. He asks her to teach him to sew. In doing so, he sort of invites her to rise to the occasion of her life, and saves his own life multiple times. And when Josey tells Alex this story, it really changes both of their lives. And Alex begins to kind of grapple with what he's done and what it means if you've never been invited to be your better self, and what happens when you are, and you accept that invitation and rise to the occasion. And it is called Not Nothing for many reasons. Mostly, the original reason is that when Josey came to me, this old Jewish man, "I'm 107 years old, I got gunk coming out of my eyes, hair where I don't want it, and no hair where I do, but I don't wear diapers. And at my age, that's not nothing." Such a Jewish phrase, but it comes to so much more, because Alex has been led to believe that he is nothing, and in a moment of great anger for him, when he explodes, he cries "I am not nothing!" And through his conversations with Josey and his relationships with Maya-Jade and the other wonderful residents at Shady Glen, he begins to realize that he, like all children, like all humans, is not nothing.