Date: Sept. 23
Title: Rough Sleepers
Author: Tracy Kidder
Leader: Shirley Morrow
Nonfiction again. Dr. Jim O’Connell undertakes an urgent mission to bring healing to unhoused persons in Boston. Tracy Kidder [you may remember him from Mountains Beyond Mountains: the Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer] chronicles O’Connell’s many years of outreach. This multifaceted account details effects of abuse, illness, drugs and alcohol along with poorly designed legal, medical, and housing rules.