Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
of Liz Murray
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In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, when her family finally unraveled, Murray found herself on the streets. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. Eventually, Murray decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. She squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 334 pages
- Publisher Hyperion
- Publication Date September 7th 2010
- First Publication 01/01/10
- Language English
- ISBN 9780786868919
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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