'From runaway to Harvard student, Murray tells an engaging, powerfully motivational story about turning her life around. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless won a New York Times scholarship and made it into the Ivy League. 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. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled.

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. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. Breaking night: (Urban slang) staying up through the night, until the sun risesīreaking 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.

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