We travel with O’Connell as he navigates the city streets at night, offering medical care, socks, soup, empathy, humor, and friendship to some of the city’s most endangered citizens. O’Connell and his colleagues as they work with thousands of homeless patients, some of whom we meet in this illuminating book. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. This winter's community-wide read is Tracy Kidder's Rough Sleepers, a real-life portrait of Boston's homeless population and those on a mission to help them,Ībout the book: After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into O’Connell’s life’s calling. The Library will be closed December 24th, 25th, 31st, and January 1st.
This Holiday season the Library will be open Saturday December 23rd and 30th from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM. to 8:00 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. The Library’s hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m.
