Wandering to Harvard

Author: (USA) Summer/Li Hong/Yuan Min
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: From a street orphan to a Harvard scholar, education master Lola Summer shares her personal journey. Recommended by Robert Coles, Ph.D., renowned professor of psychoanalysis and medical humanities at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize winner. Stranger to Harvard is a book about my growth, about being raised by a quirky yet idealistic single mother. It tells of my constant wandering, living in various shelters and apartments, and the adventures my mother and I experienced, including moving across the country from Astoria, Oregon, a coastal town, to another seaside metropolis, Boston, Massachusetts. It narrates how I—almost by chance—became the only girl on the high school wrestling team and what I learned from it. The book also describes how I later attended Harvard University, a world completely different from my upbringing, and how I adapted to life there. It also details how at nineteen, I met my father and how he eventually became my dad. This is a story about a girl returning to herself, learning, and understanding her place in the world. It also touches on the innocence of childhood and the unbreakable, unshrinkable happiness and joy that poverty cannot diminish.