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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard - Hardcover
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, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she 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. Liz 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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"This incredibly moving memoir is full of hope and courage " (The Sun)
"Thrilling...Murray is clearly a remarkable person " (Sunday Times Culture)
"Breaking Night is the real deal... Liz had every reason to give up on life, but instead of using her grim childhood as an excuse to fail, she used it to fuel her redemption... Amazing " (Grazia)
"Smart, fluent, and relentlessly spry...head and shoulders above the rest, because Liz Murray is remarkable " (The Observer)
"A powerful story to tell " (Woman)
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"Thrilling...Murray is clearly a remarkable person " (Sunday Times Culture)
"Breaking Night is the real deal... Liz had every reason to give up on life, but instead of using her grim childhood as an excuse to fail, she used it to fuel her redemption... Amazing " (Grazia)
"Smart, fluent, and relentlessly spry...head and shoulders above the rest, because Liz Murray is remarkable " (The Observer)
"A powerful story to tell " (Woman)
An inspirational memoir by a young woman who, at age fifteen, was forced out onto the streets and survived several years of homelessness before eventually making it into Harvard
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- PublisherHachette Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0786868910
- ISBN 13 9780786868919
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