Her ‘perfect child’ was now schizophrenic and homeless. Could she find him on one of the year’s coldest days?
“In a country where homelessness remains intractable, and where expensive cities like Washington have experienced surging numbers of homeless in the last decade, people like McBride have become the hidden casualties — consumed by worry and frustration, unable to get relatives to come inside from the cold, dreading that the phone will ring and someone will tell them that their sons or daughters or spouses have died on the street, and they hadn’t been able to stop it.”