Liz Murray’s Breaking Night offers a stunning glimpse into the life of poverty and low class living for a young girl dealing with drug addicted parents. The fifteen year old girl was born in the Bronx, and throughout her schooling experience was taunted for her tattered clothes and lice infested hair. This eventually led to skipping so many classes she was put into a girls home, but when she arrived back to her family, everything finally unraveled. Eventually running away, Liz met friends that turned into the street family she would come to love and learn how to forge for food and ride subways all night for a warm place to sleep with. Eventually, she decided to take her destiny into her own hands, and complete four years of high school in two,
