Infallible: Surviving San Francisco's Darkest Days

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Book length literary memoir, seeking agent representation.

A street-smart nineteen-year-old girl arrived in the city of her dreams in 1974, largely unaware of the violence that had taken hold. Several years later the horrific 1978 Jonestown Massacre in the fields of Guyana and nine days later, the execution slayings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk gave rise to the headline, “A City in Agony.” This time, the senseless terror left her reeling, while deeply affecting her personal life.

 

While dating The City’s most eligible, she'd been careful to hide her dangerous past. Just when her life seemed full of promise, she survived four physical attack in two years - the last one nearly fatal. They began with a mugging in front of the nicest restaurant in town, followed by an attempted car-jacking. A street assault was next, with the last attack being nearly fatal. In a case of mistaken identity, she was stabbed in the neck while asleep at the home of a Berkeley architect. She was twenty-four years old. 

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By the time she realized how badly she’d been damaged, her conventional resources had dried up. The therapist and his anti-depressants she refused to take were gone, as were the hypnotherapist and plastic surgeons who proved useless. Relying on nothing but her intuition, she sought out a mysterious astrologer with one arm and a bad toupee who saved her life. By explaining her difficult road ahead, he promised her a future that would never be boring.