Travels with Lizbeth

<p>"When I began writing this account I was living under a shower curtain in a stand of bamboo in a public park. I did not undertake to write about homelessness but wrote what I knew as an artist paints a still life not because he is especially fond of fruit but because the subject is readily at hand." A beautifully written account of one man's experience of homelessness Travels with Lizbeth is a story of physical survival and the triumph of the artistic spirit in the face of enormous adversity. In his unique voice - dry disciplined poignant comic - Eighner celebrates the companionship of his dog Lizbeth and recounts their ongoing struggle to survive on the streets of Austin Texas and hitchhiking along the highways to Southern California and back.</p>