Bourgeois' Books

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EVERY DELAY MEANS A LIFE is a literary political thriller rooted in the quiet, administrative violence of American cities.

Tom Grady—veteran, mechanic, and man trying to stay human—lives in his car on the forgotten edges of Austin. When he organizes a simple, safe place for people to sleep in their vehicles without harassment, it becomes a lifeline the city refuses to acknowledge. Then a man dies—not from addiction, not from crime, but from exhaustion after being forced to “move along.”

The city calls it unfortunate.
The news calls it an incident.
Tom calls it avoidable.

As City Hall buries responsibility behind procedure, as police maneuver to avoid liability, and as the public scrolls past tragedy framed as policy debate, Tom faces the line every soldier fears:

How do you stay human when the world decides some lives don’t count?

This is not a story about homelessness.
This is a story about dignity, exhaustion, and the cost of being seen.

A quiet revolution begins in a parking lot.
And the city will have to decide whether it’s willing to watch.

Readers will not walk away unchanged.