The Cost of Survival is a powerful hybrid of research, memoir, and poetry that explores what it means to live unhoused as a queer person in small city America.
Blending lived experience with broader social realities, Jai Montag offers an unflinching yet deeply human look at homelessness?one that moves beyond statistics to reveal the daily calculations, identity-based risks, and quiet resilience of survival.
This is not just a story of hardship. It is a call for dignity, safety, and change.