Breaking Night, Liz Murray
Breaking Night, Liz Murray
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Breaking Night
A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

Author: Liz Murray

Narrator: Liz Murray

Unabridged: 14 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/15/2011

Synopsis

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 woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.

About Liz Murray

Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded the White House Project Role Model Award and a Christopher Award. Lifetime Television produced a film about Liz's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. Today, she travels the world to deliver motivational speeches and workshops. She is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives, and works with the nonprofit organization Blessings in a Backpack, which supplies food for over 38,000 undernourished children each year. Liz lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu on February 03, 2023

This book is the memoir of Liz Murray, who overcame all the arduous tasks she had to face in her life through her assiduous nature and became successful in her life. Her parents were both drug addicts, and Ms.Murray tells us how parents' drug addiction destroys children's future. She had to live......more

Goodreads review by Tania on September 12, 2014

This is such a sad, yet hopeful, story. Imagine growing up with two addicts for parents, never knowing when you'll get food again, having your mom stealing your birthday money for a hit and always worrying that something will happen to them when they're out scoring drugs. And Liz was lucky, she at l......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on September 12, 2011

This memoir is truly amazing, especially as it pertains to showing the obstacles its author overcame; she has amazing resilience and she’s incredibly inspiring. This paperback edition includes discussion questions and an interview with the author, and they make this a good edition to read, especiall......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on November 30, 2012

There are so many thoughts running through my head after finishing this book. Liz Murray was raised by parents who were addicted to drugs. They loved Liz and her sister, but their need for drugs trumped everything in their lives, including providing for the basic needs of their daughters. Through ha......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on February 06, 2013

Wow. What a powerful book. I so appreciate Liz Murray writing this deeply personal, intimate book of a childhood full of struggles, neglect, and abuse. Yet she found love there and in the midst of her raw hurt, she was able to rise above her circumstances and be a productive, successful member of so......more

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