In the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances provides a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope. Join us for a live conversation with Chronicle reporter Kevin Fagan in conversation with Gary Naja-Riese, Marin Health and Human Services Homelessness Division Director.

Kevin Fagan, award-winning reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle and Pulitzer Prize nominee, has specialized in covering homelessness for decades. He produced the influential five-day “Shame of the City” series and spent six years leading the Chronicle’s annual “SF Homeless Project”. Set in San Francisco – one of the wealthiest cities in America – The Lost and the Found takes an empathic, character driven approach to exploring the human side of what’s behind the homelessness epidemic. Fagan introduces readers to Rita and Tyson, telling the moving story of two unhoused people rescued by theirfamilies and their struggle to pull themselves out of homelessness and addiction, ending with both enormous tragedy and triumph. 

Kevin Fagan is a longtime, award-winning reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle and a Pulitzer Prize nominee. During his career, he has covered homelessness, the 9/11 terror attacks, serial killers, California’s wildfires, and much more. 

Gary Naja-Riese oversees the Marin County Health and Human Services's Homelessness Division's work in funding homelessness services and transforming the homeless system of care in collaboration with County departments, cities, and community partners. Gary has over 25 years of experience in public health, policy development and implementation, community organizing, training and technical assistance and public and private sector management.

Our bookseller for this program is Sausalito Books by the Bay. 

Photo by Brant Ward