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Book Review: Highway to Homelessness: Road to Recovery

April 28, 2025 Post a comment

Highway to Homelessness: Road to Recovery

Author: Brian Masters

 

Many look to the homeless as people who want to be there, people who are addicted to drugs, and while some do want to live on the streets, and some are addicted to drugs, this life may not have always been what was desired.

Brian Masters was a successful technology sales executive, married with a son in college, living in a nice neighborhood, and owning a second house on a lake. However, when his wife chose to leave him, all of Masters’ plans for his retirement years disappeared. Even his attorney told Masters that the divorce settlement, the worst one in the county, would leave him without any money.

While the financial settlement from the divorce did leave Masters with a significantly smaller nest egg, the economic circumstances occurring in the 2008 banking crisis caused him to not be able to afford his home and soon after he found himself unemployed as his employer closed up shop. Masters was left to live out of his car and fall into a cycle of drugs and depression.

Once Masters has the reader hooked based on his circumstances, he doesn’t leave the reader behind. In his final chapters, Masters offers an 11-point action plan that turned his life around and shows the reader how they can use it too.

Highway to Homelessness offers a real-life story of how a successful life can be turned upside down, and how one can overcome those obstacles and live a fulfilling life.

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