When I Found You Summary
Catherine Ryan Hyde

When I Found You Overview

“When I Found You” by Catherine Ryan Hyde is a touching novel about a middle-aged man who finds an abandoned infant in the woods, at which point their paths cross irrevocably. When Nat reaches his teens, his misbehavior causes his grandmother to resign his care to Nathan McCann, the man who rescued him, and Nathan takes on a mentoring, nearly paternal, role in the young man’s life. “When I Found You” is an enjoyable narrative that explores how one young man’s life is shaped by the adults he knows and other various circumstances.