Just Another Day in Paradise

Just Another Day in Paradise

Jai Montag

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Editorial:
Jai Montag
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9798235698017
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Inside a Community Resource Center, eleven people experiencing homelessness move through the same space in radically different ways.For some, it’s a place to stay warm.For others, it’s access to food, power, or information.For all of them, it’s a system they must navigate-or avoid-just to survive the day.A student maintains a curated online life while sleeping in her car.A disabled veteran relies on rigid routine to manage pain and control risk.A young man learns how quickly desperation can become currency.A caregiver protects the one person she cannot afford to lose.A worker fights to rebuild stability through structure and discipline.Others document, perform, observe, or disappear.Each voice reveals a different survival strategy-shaped by scarcity, pressure, and the constant need to maintain identity in a system that offers very little stability.These are not separate stories. They are overlapping lives within a shared environment, unfolding over the course of a single day.Just Another Day in Paradise is a work of literary fiction grounded in social realism, offering an unfiltered look at homelessness, human behavior under pressure, and the systems people build when every other system fails them.

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