In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal Lee Stringer?homeless and drug-addicted for eleven years?found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day he used it to write. Soon writing became a habit that won out over drugs and before long Stringer had created one of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time.
With humane wisdom and a biting wit Stringer chronicles the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence as a marketing executive and his odyssey of survival on the streets of New York. Whether he is portraying ?God?s corner? as he calls 42nd Street or his friend Suzi a hooker and ?past-due tourist? whose infant he sometimes babysits whether he recounts taking shelter underneath Grand Central by night and collecting cans by day or making a living hawking Street News on the subway Lee Stringer conveys the vitality and complexity of a down-and-out life.
Rich with small acts of kindness humor and even heroism amid violence and desperation Grand Central Winter offers a touching portrait of our shared humanity.
