Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16

by Moshe Kasher

Oakland had an array of the oddest homeless people in the world. In the eighties, Ronald Reagan had opened up the California state mental hospitals to save money. “Don’t worry!” he said. “We will build community centers to manage these people.” Then, after releasing them, he did no such thing.