Last Home on the Left: Fourteen Years Working on LA's Skid Row

Set in an iconic mission on LA’s skid row, an intimate memoir about a counselor’s fourteen-year quest to bring unsheltered men—and herself—to a sense of home.

In 2008, Laurie Collister gets a job on LA’s skid row, the nation’s homeless capital. From a tiny, ground-floor office in a mission, she counsels unsheltered men from all walks of life: long-term pimps, professional musicians, street thugs, and graduates of top law schools. She attempts to guide each to their place in the world, to the...