Breaking Night
A Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir book. Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things...
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,...
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All around us, people were cool. By association, so were we. Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard // This was the environment in which I finally came to my education, the environment in which I knew I could no longer lie in bed and give up. How could I pull the blanket back over my head when I knew my teachers were waiting for me? When they were willing to work so hard, how could I not do the same? Liz Murray, Breaking Night // Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you. Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard //
Can't finish it. The same thing over and over. It's not the content; it's the unremitting, unendingness of it. Dirt and filth. Hunger and squalor. Drugs, drugs, drugs. Dirt and filth. Hunger and squalor. Drugs, drugs, drugs. Really, just beat me over the head with this, why dontcha. Initially I gave it no rating, but realizing how far... all adults and teens I'm of two minds concerning this book. On the one hand, I found it to be a compelling and inspirational memoir of a woman who succeeded in life, against all odds. But on the other hand, the over abundance of minute details in the beginning, which worked to engage me at first, also left me numb from the bombardment. And the glossing...
