Same Kind of Different as Me (2006) is a memoir written by Denver Moore and Ron Hall, with the assistance of Lynn Vincent. Employing a first-person point of view that switches between Moore and Hall in its chapters, the book tells the radically-different life stories of the two men—Moore spent most of his adult years being homeless or in prison, while Hall was a high-end art dealer—and how they were brought together thanks to Hall’s wife Deborah. The last part of the book details Deborah’s battle with and subsequent death from cancer and how her legacy of Christian-inspired charity impacts her family, friends, and the homeless people she worked with. The first part of the book covers the upbringing of Moore and Hall. Moore is born into a family of black sharecroppers in Red River Parish, Louisiana, in 1937. He is raised by his grandmother, but after her death in a house fire, winds up with his aunt and uncle. For almost thirty years he works as a sharecropper and experiences the institutional racism endemic in the Deep South at the time. No matter how hard he and his family work, they are perpetually in debt to “the Man,” who owns the plantation where they live and work. In addition, while changing a flat tire for a white woman on a country road when he is a teenager, Moore is attacked by three young white men on horses, who lasso him and drag him down the road. This event clouds his outlook on life, and Moore eventually hops on a passing freight train to find a better life elsewhere.