The Lost and the Found, Kevin Fagan
The Lost and the Found, Kevin Fagan
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The Lost and the Found
A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second Chances

Author: Kevin Fagan

Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/11/2025


Synopsis

A “riveting, deeply compassionate” (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.

Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan has been covering homelessness for decades and has spent extensive time on the streets for his reporting. In The Lost and the Found, Fagan introduces us to Rita and Tyson, two unhoused people who were rescued by their families with the help of his own reporting, and chronicles their extraordinary struggles to pull themselves out of homelessness and addiction.

Having experienced homelessness himself, Fagan has always brought a deep understanding to his subjects and has written here more than just a story of individuals experiencing homelessness, but also a compelling look at the link between homelessness and addiction and an incisive commentary on housing and equality. Kevin Fagan writes with “the deft touch that can come only when the ego of the journalist ebbs into something far more substantial and convincing” (The New Yorker). The Lost and the Found ends with both enormous tragedy and triumph to humanize this national calamity, forever changing the way we see the unhoused.

About Kevin Fagan

Kevin Fagan is a longtime and award-winning reporter and author, having spent over three decades at the San Francisco Chronicle before leaving in 2025 to pursue book writing. Nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize, his awards include the national James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, National Headliner, San Francisco Press Club Bill Workman award, and the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. He has covered homelessness, the 9/11 terror attacks, executions, serial killers, California’s wildfires, and much more. Follow him on X @KevinChron.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on January 08, 2025

Over the past few years, I’ve developed a keen interest in homelessness - both in terms of the forces that cause people to become displaced and also the experiences of the unhoused. This was a visceral, eye-opening, poignant, touching and intimate look at the experiences of the unhoused through the l......more

Goodreads review by Emma on April 03, 2025

it’s sometimes hard to know what to do with such a huge issue of homelessness and while this book didn’t give any perfect solutions it helped humanize the experience that these people face which I have been guilty of looking the other way. addiction and mental health play a huge role but also the la......more

Goodreads review by Katy O. on March 21, 2025

Required reading for anyone seeking to understand our nation’s crisis of homelessness. I loved the unique lens of a reporter following two people in crisis on the streets of San Francisco as their families attempt to save them and help them kick their addictions and rejoin traditional society. I so......more

Goodreads review by Terrell on February 28, 2025

Every person has a story and every soul has value. This book shared stories about homelessness in the Bay Area of California.......more

Goodreads review by Megan on January 12, 2025

4.5⭐️s (rounding up) — Few words to describe this book: informative, hopeful, genuine, tragic ~ The Lost and the Found details homelessness from a first-hand perspective. Kevin Fagan, a San Francisco journalist, takes to the streets, talking to those out there about the hardship they face, day to da......more