Brooklyn Bred

Brooklyn Bred is an autobiography of author Dr. David Garrahan’s life from ages two to twenty-one. Born into a dysfunctional family with a mentally unstable mother and absentee alcoholic father, Garrahan was homeless in Brooklyn at age six—sleeping in churches and stealing food to survive.

After his mother attempted to kill him, she was sent to a hospital for the criminally insane for nine years. Garrahan lived on a farm for five years and graduated from high school, but afterwards, was agai...