You Can't Return Home Except Through Photographs and Memory: A Reassessment of My Hometown of Vallejo, California

Author Marques Vickers returns to his hometown of Vallejo, California with his memoir "You Can't Return Home Except Through Photographs and Memory". The personal narrative traces his formation within a community that through his eyes has slipped a notch from both the middle-class and affluence. Vickers employs a light but candid tone on a gravely perceived subject, Vallejo's regressive deterioration.

The suburban San Francisco Bay Area town of 120,000 was formerly the California State Capita...