Book excerpt: This novel takes place durring the wind-down of the Viet Nam war, the early 1970's, in mystical San Francisco. Gradually she'd given up houses. Abandon things. Gotten rid of her possessions. She became a traveler. "I keep nothing. Each day is my last, and I'm alive. These are the words of a homeless street woman, a survivor, a sensitive soul. This is an account of her daily plans, routes, survival--and her thoughts, ideas & dreams.