A child does not know how to survive a war. He only knows how to keep walking. In a city where bombs have turned homes into shadows, six-year-old Adam carries two the little shoes, and a bent bottle cap he believes can still become a boat. Around him, the world has become too large, too loud, and too cruel for a child to understand. But Adam keeps moving through it, holding on to the small things adults might overlook—a crust of bread, a tied lace, a borrowed coat, a whispered promise. Little Shoes and Other Small Things is a haunting literary novel about childhood, war, and the quiet ways love survives when almost everything else is taken.