The Shoeshine Box

A boy who thought the streets of Williamsburg were his forever discovers, in one afternoon, that nothing stays the same. Six year old Meyer loses the world he knew and is left with a silence he cannot fill and a guilt far too heavy for a child.

What he finds instead is an old, battered shoeshine box abandoned in an alley – something ordinary that becomes his reason to keep going, to be useful, to be seen for more than the blame he carries.

The S…