Sign-In
Cart
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.
Also from
Montag, Jai
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback