Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids Contributor(s): Ho, Vivian (Author), Zeller, Emily Woo (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1721372709 ISBN-13: 9781721372706 Publisher: Brilliance Audio
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Compact Disc - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2019 * Out of Print * |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Violence In Society - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 6.5" L (0.40 lbs) |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Locality - San Francisco, California - Cultural Region - Northern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
Features: Price on Product, Unabridged |
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Publisher Description: Award-winning journalist Vivian Ho exposes a shattering true-crime story, shedding light on America's new lost generation. In 2015, the senseless Bay Area murders of twenty-three-year-old Audrey Carey and sixty-seven-year-old Steve Carter were personal tragedies for the victims' families. But they also shed light on a more complex issue. The killers were three drifters scrounging for a living among a burgeoning counterculture population. Soon this community of runaways and transients became vulnerable scapegoats of a modern witch hunt. The supposedly progressive residents of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, only two generations removed from the Summer of Love, now feared all of society's outcasts as threats. In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that's changing the very fabric of her city and all of urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, she gives voices to these young people--victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction. She also doesn't ignore the threat they pose to themselves and to others as a dangerous dark side emerges. With alarming urgency, she asks what can be done to save the next generation of America's vagabond youth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ho, Vivian: - Vivian Ho is an award-winning journalist who has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Guardian, Topic, and the Boston Globe. Raised in New England, she currently lives in San Francisco. |
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