This post is about a book called, 'Travels with
Lizbeth' by Lars Eighner who becomes homeless in Texas. He decides to
hitch hike to California where he hopes to obtain work as a writer. He is a published writer already and likely to do better in CA
because his audience is there - the Gay reading community.
The book jacket praises his writing by comparing his writing to great American writer's such as Henry David Thoreau... the sentence that caught my attention was when he said, "I did not undertake to write a book about homelessness, but wrote what I knew, as an artist paints a still life, not because he is especially fond of fruit, but because the subject is readily at hand." It is the account of one man's experience of homelessness...
The collapse of credit causing thousands of families to be put out of their homes by the Banks in the last few years, makes homelessness a common experience for many American families.
So far it is an easy read and that is what suits me. My brain hurts from reading too much difficult stuff lately so this is a welcome break.
The book jacket praises his writing by comparing his writing to great American writer's such as Henry David Thoreau... the sentence that caught my attention was when he said, "I did not undertake to write a book about homelessness, but wrote what I knew, as an artist paints a still life, not because he is especially fond of fruit, but because the subject is readily at hand." It is the account of one man's experience of homelessness...
The collapse of credit causing thousands of families to be put out of their homes by the Banks in the last few years, makes homelessness a common experience for many American families.
So far it is an easy read and that is what suits me. My brain hurts from reading too much difficult stuff lately so this is a welcome break.
Homeless people could benefit from your time. Photograph: Pat Tuson/Alamy
