While Murray’s older sister was furious and distant regarding their life circumstances-which included a ritualized dependence on “check day”-the author so desired her parents' acceptance that she rationalized their addictions and poverty, even though it resulted in her being grotesquely unkempt and ostracized at school. Murray’s memoir of extreme poverty and eventual academic success begins with her unenviable childhood, during which her parents were drug addicts living in the decaying Bronx of the 1980s. The admirable story of a teen who overcame homelessness through sheer grit and the kindness of friends.
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