currently works as a supervisor at Ready, Willing and Able, an organization that teaches job skills to the homeless. It will be available on Kindle and Nook in August 2015.īoth books have been translated into numerous languages including Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian and Dutch, and both have been utilized as teaching aids at several colleges and universities in the USA and in Canada. Tina S. "Living at the Edge of the World" was excerpted in Interview Magazine and The New York Post and was adapted as a one-woman play performed in Chicago in 2012. Her first book, "Winnie: My Life in the Institution" was excerpted in New York Newsday Sunday Magazine and in Redbook and made into an NBC-TV Movie of the Week starring Meredith Baxter-Birney.
She eventually turned to writing, working as a freelance feature journalist for several New York City newspapers. Jamie Pastor Bolnick was born in Huntington, Long Island and began acting professionally at age sixteen. Soon she's caught up in in a romantic relationship with April and finds herself following in her footsteps: bingeing on crack cocaine, stealing, rolling drunks, and panhandling to support her habit and April's, and to survive on the New York City streets. In her own words Tina describes her harrowing descent into crack addiction, being raped in the tunnels, several arrests and jail terms served with hardened criminals on Rikers Island, and her devastation over April's sudden, brutal death. Finally faced with the reality that she might not make it through one more day, Tina takes her first tentative steps towards a normal life.With the help of a homeless advocate and his wife, a gay uncle dying of AIDS, and Jamie Pastor Bolnick, the writer who was to become her coauthor on this book, Tina turns her life around and begins the long struggle back to the world of the living. leaves behind her dysfunctional family to join her new friend, April - a wild and charismatic teenage runaway - living in the station's deepest tunnels amidst the homeless and drug addicted.
A searing, true story right out of 1980s New York City: During the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, with AIDS and homelessness raging out of control, a young woman survives four years living in the tunnels of Grand Central Station. Sixteen year old Tina S.
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