CONTENTS

      Title Page

      Copyright Notice

      Dedication

      Introduction

  1  Austin to Tucson: Hitting the Road

  2  Tucson to La Puente: The Desert Rat

  3  Los Angeles: Pounding the Pavement

  4  San Gabriels and Hollywood

  5  To Austin

  6  Temporary Arrangements

  7  On Dumpster Diving

  8  Summer in Austin: Dog Days on the Street

  9  Phlebitis: At the Public Hospital

10  Alcohol, Drugs, and Insanity

11  On Institutional Parasitism

12  Eviction

13  Daniel

14  Lizbeth on Death Row

15  To Hollywood Again

16  In the Bamboo

17  A Roof over Our Heads

      Afterword

      Also by Lars Eighner

      Praise for the Author

      About the Author

      Copyright