About the Book

One woman’s life inside America’s greatest domestic failure—told from the driver’s seat of a van parked on the edge of survival.

The Unknown Veteran didn’t ask to become a symbol. She asked for dignity.
What she got was exile, silence, and a front-row seat to California’s billion-dollar betrayal of its most vulnerable.

In Living the Lam Life, Susan Easterly captures the unfiltered voice of The Unknown Veteran, a disabled U.S. Navy Veteran navigating a world that would rather erase her than help her. Through years of correspondence and deep friendship, Easterly gives shape to The Unknown Veteran’s truth: raw, sharp, and impossible to ignore.

You’ll read about:

• What homelessness really looks like from inside a parked van
• How government failure, social stigma, and corporate greed fuel the crisis
• The truths polite society can’t stomach and politicians won’t touch
• The quiet resilience of someone whom society has written off

A piercing, unvarnished, and necessary account of a crisis that could belong to any of us tomorrow.