Memories of Freedom

By Jeffrey Hardy

Memories of Freedom takes place in San Francisco's pre-Google, pre-Facebook, Mission District, where people on the margins ran aground in residential hotels or on the needle-strewn sidewalks. There is no protection and no respite for these people.

Over the brief span of a day and a night, four lives intertwine; those of Nate, a carpenter who is a mender, scraping by, and an obsessed fixer of things that need it. And Henrietta, a young woman from Ohio, trying to make her way in a confusing inattentive world. She is out of work and within an inch of being out of money. Tommy is retired and just hanging on. An ex-cook in the Merchant Marine, he has never lost the freedom of the taste of the wind and the sea on his lips. Martin is a Native American already slipped to living hand to mouth on the streets, a soaring spirit who has lost the dreams and freedom of that spirit's home.

Their separate yet connected experiences show the many facets of life on the precipice, exploited, ignored, or both, clinging to the last dollar, dreaming of a home to be, desperate, fearing what could be just around the next corner for each of them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BYH32QC4
• ISBN13: 9798987546000
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Isao Publishing
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"