Same Kind of Different as Me : A Modern Day Slave, and International Art Dealer and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together may well be a contender for the longest, and most unwieldy, book title of 2006; co-written by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, it is the story of the intersecting lives of the two authors who, on the face of it, should really have never had any reason to meet at all.
Denver Moore was a sharecropper on a plantation in Red River Parish, Louisiana, where he endured a difficult life that was punctuated by periods of homelessness. He and Ron Hall met whilst Hall was volunteering at a homeless shelter where Moore happened to reside at the time; the meeting was life-changing for both men, and for countless others whom they helped after changing the trajectory of each other's lives in a positive and affirming way.
In 2017 the book was adapted for the movie screen, starring Renee Zellweger, Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou, and John Voight. It was pitched as a Christian movie with dramatic and biographical overtones, and was a surprising commercial and critical success. The release of the film saw a resurgence in book sales as well, with a brief return to the Barnes and Nobel Bestsellers list.
