Award-winning journalist Vivian Ho exposes a shattering true-crime story, shedding light about America’s new lost generation.

In 2015, the senseless Bay Region murders of twenty-three-year-old Audrey Carey and sixty-seven-year-old Steve Carter were personal tragedies for the victims’ families. But they also shed light on a more complex issue. The killers were three drifters scrounging for a full time income among a burgeoning counterculture populace. Soon this community of runaways and transients became about THOSE THAT Wander: America’s Lost Street Kids susceptible scapegoats of a modern witch hunt. The supposedly progressive residents of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, just two generations removed from the summertime of Love, today feared all of society’s outcasts as dangers.

In THOSE THAT Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a growing subculture that’s changing the very fabric of her city and most of metropolitan America. Moving beyond the disheartening figures, she provides voices to these young people—victims of mistreatment, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug craving. She also doesn’t ignore the danger they pose to themselves and to others being a dangerous dark side emerges. With alarming urgency, she asks what you can do to save another generation of America’s vagabond youngsters.