Tina J. Gordon
I was haunted for years by a newspaper photograph of a homeless teenager emerging from a make-shift shower in the heart of a tent city.
She could have been one of my former students. The companion article described a community of working-class Americans who had, for a variety of reasons, lost everything. I wanted to write their story in a way everyone could relate to.
I was haunted for years by a newspaper photograph of a homeless teenager emerging from a make-shift shower in the heart of a tent city.
She could have been one of my former students. The companion article described a community of working-class Americans who had, for a variety of reasons, lost everything. I wanted to write their story in a way everyone could relate to.
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