Running from the Mirror: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781954861046)

As quickly as his face disappeared, so did his mother and father.

Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman lost his nose, lips, and more to a devastating infection-and his parents abandoned him. As a ward of the state, he was placed under the care of a surgeon who experimentally rebuilt his face.

Running from the Mirror is a poignant story of one man's struggle to survive against staggering odds. Howard gives an unflinching account of growing up a bullied outcast with no family to officially call his own. Relying on little more than street smarts and grit, he rises from dishwasher to successful entrepreneur. When a chance event shatters his world once again, he must make a daunting choice: live in the shadows of his painful past or summon the strength to make peace with it.

Filled with heart-wrenching suffering as well as soul-lifting joy, Running from the Mirror is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.