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Just Another Day in Paradise
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Jai Montag
Published: Apr 27 2026
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Inside a Community Resource Center, eleven people experiencing homelessness move through the same space in radically different ways.
For some, it's a place to stay warm.
For others, it's access to food, power, or information.
For all of them, it's a system they must navigate-or avoid-just to survive the day.
A student maintains a curated online life while sleeping in her car.
A disabled veteran relies on rigid routine to manage pain and control risk.
A young man learns how quickly desperation can become currency.
A caregiver protects the one person she cannot afford to lose.
A worker fights to rebuild stability through structure and discipline.
Others document, perform, observe, or disappear.
Each voice reveals a different survival strategy-shaped by scarcity, pressure, and the constant need to maintain identity in a system that offers very little stability.
These are not separate stories. They are overlapping lives within a shared environment, unfolding over the course of a single day.
Just Another Day in Paradise is a work of literary fiction grounded in social realism, offering an unfiltered look at homelessness, human behavior under pressure, and the systems people build when every other system fails them.
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