Glass Castle Girls: Surviving a Shitty Childhood

In the spirit of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, here are two memoirs I’ve recently read that focus on determination rather than victimization:

Breaking Night by Liz Murray. Liz’s story is about her drug-addict parents, her life as a homeless teenage runaway in NYC, and her determination to get an education leading to a New York Times scholarship, acceptance to Harvard University, and a Lifetime TV movie based on her life.

Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story by Ingrid Ricks. (Note: only $2.99 on Kindle). Ingrid’s troubles mainly involve her father’s instability, her mother’s passivity, and her step-father’s exploitation of the male-dominated culture of Mormonism. Fortunately, Ingrid had more common sense than the adults in her life and manages to survive the consequences of her parents’ bad decisions.

Man, I love stories about people overcoming hardships and ‘beating the odds’. Don’t you?