Donald H. Gean's New Book 'Five Old Guys' Retells Different Journeys of Homeless Folks Who Sought Shelter in New England

YORK, Maine, January 6, 2021 (Newswire.com) - ​Donald H. Gean, a father, husband, teacher, administrator, advocate, and legislator; has completed his new book “Five Old Guys”: a gripping and potent collection of narratives about real people, living and dead, who struggled with poverty and homelessness in the years between 1985 and 2015.

Donald writes, “The Five Old Guys are all dead now, as are most of the once homeless people in this book, but the long sad line, coming up behind them, hosts several million more of our neighbors, all so poor they cannot afford to go to that place we all go when the darkness comes—a home.

These are stories about a few of the thousands of homeless folks who found their way to the campus of the York County Shelter Programs, in an unlikely corner of New England during the end of the twentieth century, but forecast by Robert Frost earlier in the century:

Home, he mocked gently.

Yes, what else but home?

It all depends on what you mean by home.

Of course he’s nothing to us any more

Than was the hound that came a stranger to us

Out of the woods, worn out upon the trail’

Home is the place where, when you go there,

They have to take you in.

They are all real people with mothers and fathers, warts and halos, and not one of them ever dreamed that what they would become when they grew up—was homeless.”

Published by Newman Springs Publishing, Donald H. Gean’s variety of tales contains many journeys of different lives who did not have a place to come home to. Readers will definitely pick up a thing or two from these true stories.

Readers who wish to experience this brilliant work can purchase “Five Old Guys” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iBooks Store, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.

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Newman Springs Publishing is a full-service publishing house for serious authors. Each title produced by Newman Springs Publishing undergoes every step of the professional publishing process, including editing, layout, cover design, circulation, distribution, and publicity. All titles are made available in both eBook and print formats. Newman Springs Publishing distributes to tens of thousands of retail outlets throughout North America and internationally. All manuscripts in any genre are welcome to be submitted for review; If the manuscript meets the necessary criteria and is accepted for publication, Newman Springs Publishing will work closely with the author to bring the book to the retail market for a relatively inexpensive initial investment.

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