Those Who Wander: America’s Lost Street Kids Audiobook (Free)

Award-winning journalist Vivian Ho exposes a shattering true-crime story, shedding light in America’s new shed generation.

In 2015, the senseless Bay Area murders of twenty-three-year-old Audrey Carey and sixty-seven-year-old Steve Carter were personal tragedies for the victims’ families. But they also shed light on a more complex concern. The killers had been three drifters scrounging for a living among a burgeoning counterculture human population. Shortly this community of runaways and transients became about THOSE THAT Wander: America’s Shed Street Kids susceptible scapegoats of today’s witch hunt. The supposedly intensifying occupants of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, only two generations taken off the summertime of Love, right now feared all of culture’s outcasts as risks.

In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the fabric of her city and all of urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening figures, she provides voices to these young people—victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug cravings. She also doesn’t disregard the threat they create to themselves also to others as a harmful dark aspect emerges. With alarming urgency, she asks what can be done to save the next era of America’s vagabond youth.