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, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. 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 to inspire others. Liz 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. ^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, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. 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 to inspire others. Liz 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.
" Breaking Night reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It's a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray's stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. Breaking Night itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." ( The New York Times Book Review ) "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and can never be limited by circumstance. Breaking Night is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read." (Robert Redford) "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author of the New York Times bestseller Hope's Boy ) "As much as it is a memoir, Breaking Night is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch ) 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, 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 young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.
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买这本书,确实因为这段时间极度需要一点激励,工作中天天出现的问题让我觉得厌烦了。 这本书我只看了前面几页,然后直接跳到200页之后的她选择读书的部分开始看。因为前面的大部分都是在描述她在贫民窟的生活,一直充斥着饥饿,慌乱和不安定。不知道是不是越是成功的人,越想...
評分最初看同名电影,看到父母吸毒的时候,感觉恶心,受不了;也许是习惯了日韩的清纯和英美的大气。 后来得了传染病,身体情况每况愈下,更郁闷的是这个传染病不痛苦却很容易使别人痛苦,而由于不是什么要命的病,所以医院都不怎么给治。如果是在乡下或是闹市,这也就不算病;然而...
評分父亲告诉她“你认为对你好的东西,你尽管向前冲去努力争取,不用管他们在背后胡说什么。”很多时候我觉得我从她的身上我看到了光芒,我觉得自己的生活狗血而不好的时候我读着她的故事我才觉得自己还是那么幸福。只要不放弃自己,这样就算全世界指着你的头对你说你是个废物的时...
評分多年前。我倦缩在我家沙发上。手里拿着廉价速溶咖啡。 看着中央八套第一次播放根据这本书原著改编的电影。 我承认,我完全是被标题党的风雨哈佛路吸引,然后慢慢的看下去的。 Sat考试。Sat2美国历史。AP数学。这些名词。 都是我那时候也正在经历的。 看到Liz打工,疲惫到不堪...
評分電影曾經讓我哭的岔氣兒,但是書的話,我讀的時候一直在疑惑這究竟是自傳啊還是小說啊。那種故意壓抑的痛苦讓我覺得很不舒服。
评分Didn't finish it.
评分寫得好壓抑,而且和電影差彆太大瞭。
评分最後一個chapter纔覺得沒有嫩麼壓抑,也細膩的描寫齣很多電影裏麵沒有說明的細節,看起來很過癮
评分Read it as the English material. If what I read is the Chinese version, I may have dropped it in a half way. 85%of the book describes her miserable life before high school, and only 15% tells us how she tried her best for the study and scholarship. For me, I haven’t been touched that much. 作為英語讀物讀完的。如果是讀的中文版,可能看不到一半就放棄瞭吧。本以為是部勵誌書,結果85%都在寫她高中之前的悲慘生活
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