Breaking Night

书名：Breaking NightAMemoirofForgiveness,Survival,andMyJourneyfromHomelesstoHarvard
作者：LizMurray
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ISBN：9780786868919
出版社：Hyperion
出版时间：2010-9-7
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：352
豆瓣评分： 8.4

书籍简介：

" 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. 点击链接进入中文版： 风雨哈佛路

作者简介：

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.

书友短评：

@ 马牛 我终于看完了风雨哈佛路！然后这是我说的第N遍，他不是一本所谓的“励志小说”，我也并没有觉得他很励志。但是我确实从书中看到了很多日常看不到的东西，他们让我想了很多，小到身边的人合适，大到人生未来。我并没有受到很多鼓舞，而是明白了很多人生经历背后折射出的道理。Liz, 或许埋怨过，但是终究还是对自己的亲人有浓浓的爱，大到超过我原本的想象。我越来越明白what “they are your family” means. 所谓的perfect little family是不存在的, but they are my family, and that’s what matters。Liz的一生, 尽管种种曲折，她看到的都是爱。我也要多看生活中好的一面。 @ lotus God, Grant methe SERENITY, to accept the things I cannot change,COURAGE to change the things I can, andthe WISDOM to know the difference.祈求上天赐予我平静的心，接受不可改变的事，给我勇气改变可以改变的事，并赋予我分辨这两者的智慧。

Contents
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter 1 – University Avenue
Chapter 2 – Middle of Everything
Chapter 3 – Tsunami Weather
Chapter 4 – Unraveling
Chapter 5 – Stuck
Chapter 6 – Boys
Chapter 7 – Breaking Night
Chapter 8 – The Motels
Chapter 9 – Pearls
Chapter 10 – The Wall
Chapter 11 – The Visit(or)
Chapter 12 – Possibility
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
A Personal Invitation from Liz Murray
About the Author
Praise for Breaking Night
Copyright
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