You Ought to Do a Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption

“This masterpiece of dogged and loving reporting will astonish you and touch your heart.

The struggles and quest for redemption of football star Jackie Wallace make for a fall- from-grace tale that’ s both unsettling and uplifting.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da VinciThe heartbreaking, timeless, and redemptive story of the transformative friendship binding a fallen-from-grace NFL player and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who meet on the streets of New Orleans, offering a rare glimpse into the precarious world of homelessness and the lingering impact of systemic racism and poverty on the lives of NOLA’ s citizens.