![]() ![]() With the help of a homeless advocate and his wife, a gay uncle dying of AIDS, and the woman who was to become her co-author on this book, Tina turns her life around and makes her way back to the world of the living. Finally faced with the reality that she might not make it through one more day, Tina takes her first difficult steps towards a normal life. Tina was a street kid living mostly in Grand. with Jamie Pastor Bolnick I notice that the paperback copy has Bolnick’s name in much larger type and a larger picture of Tina S. In her own words, she describes her descent into crack addiction, being raped in the tunnels, her several arrests and jail terms and her grief and guilt over the death of April, whom she'd come to love. Living at the Edge of the World: How I Survived in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station by Tina S. Soon she's bingeing on crack-just like April-and stealing, scamming and panhandling to support her habit and to survive on the streets. Living at the Edge of the World A searing, true story of New York City in the 1980's: During the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, with AIDS and homelessness out of control, sixteen year old Tina leaves behind her dysfunctional family to join her new friend, April Savino, a wild and charismatic teenage runaway, living in the station's. She leaves behind her dysfunctional family to join April in the tunnels of Grand Central Station amidst the homeless and drug addicted. meets April, a teenage runaway, she thinks she's found her best friend. ![]() ![]() Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,. ![]()
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