A college student helps a homeless man named Ed write down his story while he still remembers it. They both switch between interviewed/interviewer, subject and author, Ed and editor before the work in questionÑa best-selling, Beat-style memoirÑreally begins at all.
Contained at the end are 5 essays written on Andrew Shaw-Kitch by Andrew Shaw-Kitch, commissioned by a friend the same summer of 2007, broadening the discussion of authorship and narrative and further expanding and critiquing the genre of autobiography.