Excerpt from Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Name: Rough Sleepers
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Tracy Kidder
ISBN: 9781984801432

Rough Sleepers

Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

by Tracy Kidder

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First Published:
Jan 17, 2023, 320 pages

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Jan 2024, 320 pages

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"Where did you get the treatment?" Jim asks.

"I bought the shit at CVS, and somebody stole a hundred dollars' worth of frigging lice removal shit, I got court tomorrow, my mother's sick in the hospital, dying, and I need to go see her but I'm not gonna go there and expose people. A lot of chicks have 'em and don't tell."

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