After three decades unhoused and addicted in Portland, Oregon, Carole Hinojosa now serves the people she used to live among. With fearless candor, Carole narrates her past, including the circumstances that led her to separate from her young daughter. Ten years after a court order that changed her life, Carole walks us through her days--her tireless advocacy on behalf of people whose lives she understands intimately as well as her reunion with her beloved daughter.

The second book in our Dispatches series, If You Don't Want To Be Punched, Don't Punch Somebody Else: The Lives of Carole Hinojosa provides a vital, timely, and first-hand look into our nations housing and homelessness crisis. All copies also include a QR code, granting exclusive access to audio recordings, photos, and additional materials.

Dispatches from individual lives, as they happen: in our new Dispatches series, each compact book originates in short confidences recorded by individuals during borrowed moments from their interesting lives. Set amid some of our most pressing contemporary predicaments and edited by award-winning writers Peter Orner and Laura Lampton Scott, these invaluable books seek to document the highs and lows of daily human endurance.