Overview
āI couldnāt put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.āāAbraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, BookPage, Chicago Public Library
Tracy Kidder has been described by The Baltimore Sun as āa master of the nonfiction narrative.ā In Rough Sleepers, Kidder tells the story of Dr. Jim OāConnell, a gifted man who invented a community of care for a cityās unhoused population, including those who sleep on the streetsāthe ārough sleepers.ā
After Jim OāConnell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospitalās chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into OāConnellās lifeās calling. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. OāConnell and his colleagues as they work with thousands of homeless patients, some of whom we meet in this illuminating book. We travel with OāConnell as he navigates the city streets at night, offering medical care, socks, soup, empathy, humor, and friendship to some of the cityās most endangered citizens. He emphasizes a style of medicine in which patients come first, joined with their providers in what he calls āa system of friends.ā
Much as he did with Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder explores how Jim OāConnell and a dedicated group of people have improved countless lives by facing and addressing one of American societyās most difficult problems, instead of looking away.
This book title, Rough Sleepers (Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people), ISBN: 9781984801456, by Tracy Kidder, published by Random House Publishing Group (January 16, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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