No Handbook for the Homeless A Novel eBook Joyce Trainor
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There is no Handbook for the Homeless. Nobody teaches seminars or gives guided tours that promise to give you the inside scoop on where to flop when you’re homeless. You have to figure it out as you go along. Few of us plan for it. Perhaps, in today’s cliché driven world, it means we planned to fail. But how much farther can you fall than sleeping in the cemetery, curled up on your son’s grave because it’s the only piece of real estate you own. At best, if you find yourself homeless, if you haven’t burned all your karma, you will find a spirit guide. More likely the guide will find you. In this first novel by Joyce Trainor, Aileen Roark’s middle class life is forever changed by a drunk driver. Overwhelmed by medical and legal debt, Aileen retreats to a tiny rundown apartment and tries desperately to rebuild her life with only her son’s enormous dog for companionship. But the downward spiral continues and Aileen stumbles into a world unknown to her, hidden from wealthy tourists and part time residents in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. It’s a place where a night on the street can mean a death sentence or a ‘Go Straight to Jail’ card and change everything you believe about the ragged people standing on the corner. Street dwelling Wizard, a relic of the communes that dotted New Mexico in the 1960s and 70s; Father Rico, elderly priest to an impoverished parish; ex-boxer Cesar Jesus Chavez, now night manager at a cheap motel; and the quirky Billy James Dean, Esquire, defender of the almost guilty, help Aileen survive.
No Handbook for the Homeless A Novel eBook Joyce Trainor
I've read the statistics about homelessness and how people end up being homeless, but learned so much more from No Handbook for the Homeless. The story immerses you in the day-to-day dangers, challenges, and decisions that homeless people face and how extraordinarily difficult it is to survive being homeless, much less move back into employment and permanent housing.Product details
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No Handbook for the Homeless A Novel eBook Joyce Trainor Reviews
A great story with great characters with many beautiful New Mexico settings. The storyline takes the main character through a series of both heartbreaking and uplifting events that reflect our current human condition. Strongest part of the book are the people-Wizard, Cesar, Father Rico, Billy Dean- that help the main charactrer dig herself out of the hole. A book that leaves you full of hope - should be made into a movie.
In this novel the reader is taken on a journey of homelessness, the drudgery, the sparseness, the cold, the blazing heat, and hunger, The reader experiences what created the homelessness, for their is always a story, and yet I held hope that the character would find her way.. The homeless characters she meets throughout Albuquerque are in turn caring, lovable, cruel, and desperate. I feel as if I have lived this story through the character and feel even more compassion for the plight of the homeless for having read it.
Joyce Trainor’s “No Handbook for the Homeless” lays out an almost hour-by-hour account of how homeless former teacher Aileen Roark and her big, sweet dog struggle to find food and shelter. The author has a gift for scene and authentic, harrowing detail. She also has an especially deft way with her animal characters, giving them the same respect she gives her humans. When Aileen, having lost her beloved dog, searches at the pound for another, she finds one that “turned her face up toward me using her sad brown eyes to tell me her story. 'I am a good girl. I did what I was told. I was kind to people and never asked much, so how did I end up here abandoned and alone.' I knew that look. It was what I saw every time I looked in a mirror.”
Engrossing story of survival.
Joyce Trainor's novel, a brutally honest depiction of how homelessness lurks in the shadows waiting to snatch each and everyone of us. I couldn't put it down, and when I did finish, I well-up and spilled out.
I've read the statistics about homelessness and how people end up being homeless, but learned so much more from No Handbook for the Homeless. The story immerses you in the day-to-day dangers, challenges, and decisions that homeless people face and how extraordinarily difficult it is to survive being homeless, much less move back into employment and permanent housing.
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