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 aga...