The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who
raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and
went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street.
At the age of twenty, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a
promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself
by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no
sooner had he landed an entry level position at a prestigious firm,
Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging
circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his
toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless
child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year
moving from shelters, "HO-tels", and soup-lines. Never giving in to
despair, Gardner makes an astonishing transformation from being part of
the city's invisible to being a powerful player in its financial
district. Here is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle
of men abandoning their children, a story that appeals to the very
essence of the American Dream.
Read by Andre Blake
