The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United
States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now,
with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts
her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that
offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the
power of believing in oneself. Here is
the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die
when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a
little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited
paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes
that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on
herself. She would learn to give herself
the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different
life.
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