Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
by Tracy Kidder
Buy on AmazonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains “I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.”—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, BookPage, Chicago Public Library Tracy Kidder has been described by The Baltimore Sun as “a master of the nonfiction narrative.” In Rough Sleepers, Kidder tells the story of Dr.…
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"Dr. Jim O’Connell has been treating unhoused people in Boston for more than three decades, and he hasn’t worked himself out of a job yet. On the contrary, the job is bigger than ever – not only in Boston but in nearly every American city. Nevertheless, I found Tracy Kidder’s book about O’Connell and his Sisyphean work surprisingly uplifting. The onetime bartender is both cleareyed and compassionate toward his patients – people who are ignored by so many others. His work might be a Band-Aid on the bigger problem of homelessness, but as he says, “This is what we do while we’re waiting for the world to change.”"
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