My beloved world / Sonia Sotomayor.

Author Sotomayor, Sonia, 1954-

ImprintNew York : Knopf, 2013.

Descriptionix, 315 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Abstract:An instant American icon, the third woman, and the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court, the author tells the story of her life before becoming a judge, in this personal memoir. Here the author recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine), and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge she took 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.

ISBN:9780307594884 (hardback)

ISBN:0307594882 (hardback)

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