BREAKING NIGHT: Journey from Homeless to Harvard (736 hits)
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.
When Liz Murray was born, her father was in prison for selling drugs and her mother had vowed to turn over a new leaf. But when Liz was three, her dad was released and her mother began using drugs again. Liz and her older sister became accustomed to the display of cocaine paraphernalia on the kitchen table; to the... (read more)
