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...
評分我想买此书的时候,该书在大中国还没有上市,我叫人在美国买然后寄回来的。开始看,觉得还是那么回事,看着看着,就失望了。 我发现电影真的是很大程度上升华了Liz Murray 的故事。她的事迹其实没有那么精彩。 她也没有这么正气,不是电影中说的:跟朋友溜达时...
評分我想买此书的时候,该书在大中国还没有上市,我叫人在美国买然后寄回来的。开始看,觉得还是那么回事,看着看着,就失望了。 我发现电影真的是很大程度上升华了Liz Murray 的故事。她的事迹其实没有那么精彩。 她也没有这么正气,不是电影中说的:跟朋友溜达时...
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...
評分又是一本被书名毁了的书, 其实这不是一本告诉你怎么考上哈佛的书,而是告诉你面对苦难,你是可以选择的,当看到莉兹那段消沉的日子,就想起陈扬师兄说过的话:当一个烂人和当一个好人都一样难,你为什么不选择当个好人? 今年农历后,爸爸的公司倒闭了,钱被合...
really good book. not sure if Liz wrote it herself? because i am confused how she can remember all the little details that happened when she was less then 5 years old?
评分一邊跑步一邊聽,就像在迴憶當初看過的電影一般,不過細緻瞭許多
评分No.24
评分inspiring and moving
评分stunning memoir of a young woman who is strong-minded.
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