Breaking Night
In the beginning of the book, Liz explains how her family life is and also how her father first met her. It happened to be behind the glass in prison. Her parents got themselves in a very bad situation. Her mother was on a bad habit of cocaine; her father was selling and using many other drugs at the same time. The mother started when she was young, “smoking grass and sniffing glue”, but as the years went on and she passed through different friends and groups, it lead to worse habits and it didn’t stop. Father came from a middle class catholic family. He grew up as a lonely child as he grew apart from his family. He was the unfortunate one when he grew up, riding the bus to school while everyone else was driving themselves. The environment he lived in caused him to become a drug addict unfortunately. Ma and Daddy met at a mutual friend’s apartment, where nothing good was going on. They’d met a few times before that but it
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They took her to see Meredith, not knowing anything about her. Lisa told her years later that she had another sister and that her father had abandoned her when she was only two years old. The old good times of getting high with each other became the last things that they would do together. The fighting became so bad that Liz and Lisa had to lock themselves in their bedrooms.
Leonard was the new friend of Ma’s around the house. They turned the kitchen into a shooting gallery and all the government checks where spent towards drugs. He wasn’t very likeable but he was the resource, the more he was around; the more money they got to go get high with. Liz had to start searching the sidewalks for clothing due to her parents not caring to spend money on her. She stopped showing up to school for a little while, but she had a better time not getting made fun of everyday for wearing tore up