Книга: LIFE: You Can Escape

After losing her mother as a toddler, Ophelia Smith was raised by her older sister in extreme poverty on Chicago's South Side. Enduring winters without heat or running water, constant hunger, and motherhood at eighteen, Ophelia never lost hope. Her faith in God and in her own abilities, as well as her unshakeable optimism, ambition, and desire to learn, propelled her out of poverty and into a successful life as a business owner, educator, and mentor.LIFE: You Can Escape is an uplifting account of Ophelia s determination to seize every available opportunity in pursuit of her vision of escape from a hopeless life. Ophelia's story is an inspiration to the downtrodden, proving that with motivation, hard work, and a positive outlook, we can achieve anything.