Kevin Fagan with Gianna Toboni - The Lost and the Found (Ferry Building Store)

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Kevin Fagan

In-conversation with Gianna Toboni

The Lost and the Found

A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances

Book Passage (SF Ferry Building)

NEW TIME: Wed., Feb. 12th, 2025 • 6:00pm

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This event is free to attend and will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's SF Ferry Building Store. Please contact books@bookpassage.com with questions regarding events.

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Join us at Book Passage for an author event in celebration of Kevin Fagan's new book The Lost and Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances! Joined in-conversation with Gianna Toboni.

In the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.



Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco—one of the wealthiest cities in America—takes an empathic, character-driven approach to exploring the human side of what’s behind the homelessness epidemic.



An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee who has covered homelessness for decades and spent extensive time on the streets for his reporting, Fagan experienced it himself as a young man and brings a deep understanding to the crisis. He introduces us to Rita and Tyson, telling the deeply moving story of two unhoused people rescued by their families with the help of Fagan’s reporting, and their struggle to pull themselves out of homelessness and addiction, ending with both enormous tragedy and triumph.



But The Lost and the Found is not just a story of individuals experiencing homelessness, it is also a compelling look at the link between homelessness and addiction, and an incisive commentary on housing and equality. Fagan shines a sharp light on this national calamity, and in sharing Rita and Tyson’s stories, The Lost and the Found has the potential to change the way we see and help the homeless.

Kevin Fagan is a longtime, award-winning reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle and a Pulitzer Prize nominee. During his career, he has covered homelessness, the 9/11 terror attacks, serial killers, California’s wildfires, and much more. Follow him on X @KevinChron.

GIANNA TOBONI is a two-time Emmy-winning documentarian and author with dozens of films that have aired on HBO, Showtime, Hulu and VICE. Toboni has traveled to more than 30 countries, including Iraq, Mexico, Somalia, Israel/Palestine/Gaza, Nigeria, Russia, Philippines, and many more, telling stories that highlight the most significant challenges facing each local community and the humanity at the center of them. She’s covered the biggest national stories and feels some of the most powerful ones are often hidden right here in America.

Her debut book, THE VOLUNTEER, a story about her relationship with a death row inmate, who volunteered for execution, and the broader story of America’s  death penalty, will be published by Atria Books, a Simon and Schuster imprint, in 2025.

Toboni was honored on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for Media. She was named a TEDx Speaker on truth and storytelling. Toboni is a Peabody and du-Pont Columbia Award finalist for her documentaries, has won two Emmys, a GLAAD, Gracie, two Front Page Awards, and a Webby for Best Documentary Series. She works alongside her sister, Jacqueline Toboni, to bring both scripted and unscripted projects to the screen through their production company, Mother Media.

Kevin Fagan - photo credit Brant Ward; Gianna Toboni photo credit Jasmeet Singh

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