A literary memoir about a writer's coming of age in Gravesend, Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s, working with the homeless mentally ill in the Lower East Side in the 1980s, and expatriation to Paris in the 1990s. Includes a frontispiece illustration by Picasso's model and muse, Sylvette David, an Introduction by Robert Roper, and an Afterword by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno.