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It's about finding your spot.
After wandering all over California, Derek Powazek found himself in San Francisco, in one of the city's worst neighborhoods, with little more than a website to his name. During the next few years, moment by moment, Derek lost love, found friends, and discovered himself through his new home: San Francisco.
In the steep streets and narrow Victorian houses, in hidden gardens and on curbs, among yuppies, homeless, hippies, working stiffs, musicians and artists, with discarded office plants and adopted animals, Derek found the stories that have become his life.
"San Francisco Stories is that rare book that will hold you in your seat while you read it, then get you off your ass when you're done. Powazek tells tales of friends, neighbors, streets, apartments, memories -- each set against the backdrop of a city he clearly loves and each making you want to step outside your own door, no matter where you live, to see what you've been missing" -- Greg Knauss, author of Rainy Day Fun And Games For Toddler And Total Bastard
"How can you love a city? Derek Powazek makes sure we count the ways. This quiet, thoughtful collection of tales and memory reminds us all to look at our homes not as though we were passing through but embroiled in a great love affair. In Powazek's steady hands, it's an affair we never want to end." -- Kevin Smokler, publisher of Central Booking.com
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