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4.5
I stumbled upon this book while browsing the photography section at the mega-bookstore Strand in NYC. After the first page, I was completely enthralled by the authors backstory, and simply could not put the book down. This book was so much more than an opportunistic effort to make art (or rather, anything but). The author worked to translate the statistics of homelessness into individual faces and voices within her own heart. The stories were moving, heart breaking, and human. Often I feel like we Americans write off the statistics as simple numbers. Little do we realize that every person living on the street was born as someone's son or daughter.The portraits are breathtaking, honest and anything-but-silent. I hope those who view this book, upon finishing it,put it down changed and motivated to lend a ear and a hand. Humanity is slowly choking itself with technology and material things, while what we really need to sustain us are more human-to-human relationships.