Garcia J. Malcolm
Garcia J. Malcolm - Out Of The Rain - Paperback
Garcia J. Malcolm - Out Of The Rain - Paperback
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Description: Out of the Rain takes us into the growing world of the homeless in the United States particularly in San Francisco. Here we read their powerful stories which examine not just poverty but bottom - of - the - barrel destitution and in many cases self - destruction. Tom who runs a social services agency doesn't play by a book of rules as much as try to bring some humanity to his work. Then there is Walter a homeless man who can't save himself from booze but is ready to help others. Throughout this novel told from various perspectives the reader is introduced in intimate detail to the lives of social services workers trying to find open shelter beds and simultaneously navigating federal programs. Homeless men and women are battling sobriety and addiction and simply trying to find sustainable work and decent housing. Based on the author's experience working with homeless people in San Francisco as a social services worker in the 1980s and 1990s this novel vividly takes the reader into the heads of combat veterans junkies prostitutes and the unemployed. J. Malcolm Garcia left social services to pursue journalism so he could write about the people he worked with and share their stories - and humanity - with the broader public.
Title: Out Of The Rain
Author(s): Garcia J. Malcolm
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781644213865
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 7/16/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Out of the Rain takes us into the growing world of the homeless in the United States particularly in San Francisco. Here we read their powerful stories which examine not just poverty but bottom - of - the - barrel destitution and in many cases self - destruction. Tom who runs a social services agency doesn't play by a book of rules as much as try to bring some humanity to his work. Then there is Walter a homeless man who can't save himself from booze but is ready to help others. Throughout this novel told from various perspectives the reader is introduced in intimate detail to the lives of social services workers trying to find open shelter beds and simultaneously navigating federal programs. Homeless men and women are battling sobriety and addiction and simply trying to find sustainable work and decent housing. Based on the author's experience working with homeless people in San Francisco as a social services worker in the 1980s and 1990s this novel vividly takes the reader into the heads of combat veterans junkies prostitutes and the unemployed. J. Malcolm Garcia left social services to pursue journalism so he could write about the people he worked with and share their stories - and humanity - with the broader public.
Title: Out Of The Rain
Author(s): Garcia J. Malcolm
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781644213865
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 7/16/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
