That summer, Uncle Leo disappeared. “What do you mean, disappeared?” I said. “Poof,” said Lucia. “Vanished, like magic.” Vanished, like magic? Later I learned he’d absconded with sixty-six thousand dollars, had been embezzling from the store for more than two years. Yonah flew immediately to Israel.
Could be a bad fnancial turning point for Yonah and Lucia.
