This is a love story about a quadriplegic woman named Sarah and a heroin addict named Rick.

It begins on a sunny afternoon in 1968, when a Ford Mustang GT Fastback, heading to Muir Woods in California, slipped across the yellow line and into oncoming traffic.

There is a very...

This is a photograph of a room where people have died:

(Robert Walsh photo)

It is in a building next to other buildings filled with hallways where bodies have disappeared only to reappear — perforated, lifeless and jammed under bed bunks...

Sue White was 23 years old when she stuck a Hot Wheels car into her pocket, walked into a convenience store and pointed it at the attendant.

"Give me all the money in the drawer."

I know this because she told me.

I know that she was homeless, that...