Daily bread
Subtitle: a portrait of homeless men and women of Lenawee County, Michigan
By: profiles and introduction by Jennifer Burd ; photographs by Lad Strayer
Contributors: Strayer, Lad
Series: Working Lives series; Working lives series (Huron, Ohio)
Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Huron, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781933964263
Subjects: Homelessness; Poor; Homeless persons
Description: This volume presents a series of articles that accompany photographs depicting homelessness in Lenawee County, Michigan. The text and photos that were originally published in the Adrian Daily Telegram newspaper show the nuances of pride, suffering, and fellowship of the severely impoverished among us. This book depicts how these individuals survive by facing each day as best they can. Steve lives year-round in a tent in the woods; Kevin, in an elaborate cardboard hut he's built. Shirley and Elvis, a couple in their 40's, sleep in a car and seek yard work on bicycles strapped with tools. Beautiful and haunting at the same time, this work "poses a reminder that those we shut out still do strive for a dignified existence, whether or not we choose to acknowledge them."