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Sorry to say, but it is clearly from the perspective of a privileged White woman. Still her take on her time helping the homeless was worth the read and may inspire others to do the same.
This was probably the most moving book I have read by Danielle Steel. Her true story of creating a group to help the homeless of San Francisco. Danielle started the group during her despair of losing her son Nick to suicide and the dissolving of her marriage. She fully funded the supplies and supplied the homeless with coats, sleeping bags and other cold weather gear, all anonymously for 11 years. Danielle and a group of friends she swore to secrecy, went out regularly to help the homeless. They met some wonderful people, who may have fallen on hard times, but touched them and left a lasting impression that encouraged them to keep helping. This story made me cry several times. It is hard to imagine that beautiful city I love so much, inundated with so many homeless. It is a shame that our government does not care enough to help these people in the United States first, as much as they want to help the downtrodden from other countries. A very emotional book.
A moving book about the author's experiences working with the homeless, the writing leaves something to be desired and the premise is a paternalistic, disempowering one which portrays "the homeless" as overwhelmingly mentally ill people who are unable to help themselves. Some quotes from the book: "They are lost out there on their own." "Like drowning people, they can't save themselves." While it's clear that she writes from her heart, I feel that she has missed the mark by expounding upon things she has not properly researched, such as the causes of homelessness and the ability of those experiencing it to take care of themselves, given access to proper resources. She does, however, do a great job of painting moving portraits of different people she encountered on the streets in chapter five, and throughout the book to some degree.
Her heart is in the right place but there was almost nothing to this book. She went out and gave stuff to some homeless people a load of times. That's the entire story. Nothing too interesting.