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Publisher: T. Davis Baylor Publishing
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On East Lancaster Avenue in Fort Worth, homelessness is not an abstraction. It has a place, a routine, and people whose lives are too easily reduced to what strangers see from the street.
Steven Jones arrives carrying everything he owns and quickly learns the rules of survival-where to go, what to protect, whom to trust, and how easily a person can disappear into a system designed to help people who have nowhere else to go.
Marcus knows that world from the other side. Once homeless himself, he now returns as a volunteer. The Mercedes he drives, the Rolex on his wrist, and the life he has rebuilt do not erase where he has been. They allow him to recognize what others might miss.
Through their conversations, East Lancaster becomes more than a setting. Its history, shelters, service organizations, businesses, streets, and changing landscape reveal a larger question about how we judge people after seeing only where they ended up.
East Lancaster: A Fort Worth Story is a work of fiction grounded in a real place and informed by the realities surrounding homelessness. It is a story about dignity, judgment, survival, circumstance, and the distance between seeing someone and understanding them.
Sometimes the difference between two lives is smaller than either person wants to believe.
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