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.
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. 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.
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