Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Author: Liz Murray
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….Read More
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