Dr. Howell sighed. "How do people get to this point? We live in a country where there are so many opportunities. What happened to Mr. Frazier that brought him here?" He seemed to be speaking more to himself than to me, but I answered him anyway. 
 "Life takes turns that we don't expect and even the best of us can end up in a place we never expected." 
 This quote meant the most to me (summed the whole book up basically.) 
 One Day Soon is a fantastic novel, bogged down with a lot of editing and formatting errors. I'm starting to miss the days, I picked up a paperback, and rarely encountered one. However, I was transfixed to the story, and didn't let it mar my score. It tackles the dark issues of homelessness, child abuse (I refuse to call it prostitution - children cannot choose to prostitute themselves - if they do, it's because they've been abused) and I think Dr. Howell's quote above there is very apt. Even in a county full with many opportunities, people fall through the cracks. Sure, it's people's decisions that usually put them in that spot, but how much is made out of desperation and pure survival instincts? (And children shouldn't even be put in that spot anyway). Yossarian Frazier is a 'hustler' and fifteen years plus of hard life on the streets, had lead him to contract Hep B (could've easily been HIV), and he's brought to hospital, where the girl who was homeless with him for 6 months, is now a social worker. 
 The author deliberately tries to play with our feels. 
 (view spoiler)[ She makes it seem it like Yoss is going to die, dragging it out, dragging it out, but in the epilogue he's fine . 
 When I see a author deliberately manipulating the written word to make us a feel a certain way, I usually feel the opposite. If the author is aiming to choke us up, I'm mentally choking the author for reducing to cheap tactics. 
 Still, the overall effect of the prose was not lost. 
 Not the best, but emotive driven and character driven. 
 Liked it a lot. 
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