In Plain Sight Reflections On Life In Downtown Eastside Vancouver

News stories of the socio-economically disenfranchised in North America are too often presented by the popular media to fascinate or horrify their consumers while they erase the real lives of the people "covered." This collection of seven life stories from Vancouver's "Downtown Eastside" sets out to create a space for a "people without history," defined only as "a neighborhood." These women share the stories of their complex pathways from childhood, into and out of the Downtown Eastside, through periods of addiction and recovery, strength and illness, affluence and poverty. They confront and challenge the familiar stereotypes applied to drug users, to "wayward women," and to those who live with disease and/or mental illness.Robertson, Leslie is the author of 'In Plain Sight Reflections On Life In Downtown Eastside Vancouver', published 2005 under ISBN 9780889225138 and ISBN 0889225133.