1's Pursuit of Happiness (Paperback)

Miranda Rights

ISBN 13: 9798256156534

Editore: Pinnacle Global Publications, 2026

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Paperback. How many times can a person fall before they finally understand what they have been running from?In One's Pursuit of Happiness, Miranda Rights tells the unpredictable and personal story of a life spent searching for belonging, purpose, love and peace. From a childhood shaped by affection, violence, fear, sports, music and survival in Brooklyn to military service, addiction, emergency medical work, family struggles and recovery, Miranda's journey refuses to follow a simple path.Growing up in the Albany housing projects, Miranda learned early that life could be both wonderful and frightening. There were family traditions, neighborhood adventures, baseball games, football fields, music, and laughter but there were also dangers outside the home and painful realities within it. Beneath everything was an internal struggle Miranda could not explain, a feeling of incompleteness that remained hidden while life moved forward.That search for relief led to alcohol, drugs, reckless decisions and years of running from difficult emotions. Yet even through self-destruction, Miranda continued to serve, work, compete, protect others and rise after every fall. Her experiences carried her from the streets of New York to service in the United States Air Force, where she worked on military aircraft and supported missions connected to Operation Just Cause.Then came September 11, 2001.After both towers had fallen, Miranda made her way toward Lower Manhattan to help. What followed was a harrowing journey through barricades, overwhelmed hospitals, emergency staging areas and the immense rubble of Ground Zero. Working alongside medical personnel, firefighters, volunteers and rescue crews, she witnessed devastation beyond anything she had imagined and became part of the desperate effort to help those still trapped beneath the ruins.But the greatest battle in this memoir is not fought on a football field, beside an aircraft or across the rubble of a fallen tower. It is fought within.One's Pursuit of Happiness is not a story of instant redemption. It is a lifetime of memories, contradictions, mistakes, courage, addiction, service, regret, survival and the difficult process of accepting the person reflected in the mirror.This is the story of an imperfect individual who has fallen more times than she can count but continues to rise. It is a reminder that happiness is not always a destination waiting at the end of the road. Sometimes it is found in understanding the roads that brought us here.Fasten your seatbelt. The ride is about to begin. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: 1's Pursuit of Happiness (Paperback)
• Editore: Pinnacle Global Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798256156534
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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She grew up in the Brooklyn housing projects in the sixties, boxed with her older sisters to survive the streets, and once turned down the chance to meet The Beatles because her dad didn't know who they were.

She was also inside the South Tower on September 11, 2001, wearing a borrowed breathing mask, running through the rubble, wondering if she'd ever see solid ground again.

That's just the first third of 1's Pursuit of Happiness.

1's Pursuit of Happiness is a raw, unflinching, and darkly funny memoir by Miranda Rights - a trans woman whose life has been anything but simple. From the Albany housing projects of Brooklyn to the skies above Panama during Operation Just Cause. From the streets of lower Manhattan on the worst morning in American history to the cafeteria of a Far Rockaway treatment facility, waiting for a meal she couldn't pay for.

Miranda has run toward disaster all her life - and spent decades running from herself. Her story is one of addiction and recovery, of faith lost and slowly rebuilt, of a gender identity suppressed for half a century that kept resurfacing no matter how deep she buried it. It is the story of an extraordinary ordinary life: a kid from Brooklyn who went to war, served as a first responder, battled addiction across two decades, survived institutions and street corners alike - and through all of it, never stopped asking why.

This is not a polished redemption narrative. It's a roller coaster ride, told in Miranda's own voice - irreverent, literary, heartbroken, and oddly hopeful - through all the wrong turns and impossible moments that shaped who she is.

Loved the honesty of David Carr's The Night of the Gun. Were moved by the scope of LGBTQ+ memoirs that refuse to tell a clean story. Want a firsthand perspective on 9/11 from someone who was in the building, not watching from a TV screen. Are themselves in recovery - or love someone who is - and need proof that it's possible to keep getting up after every fall.

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall." - Vince Lombardi

Miranda has fallen more times than she can count. She keeps rising.

Fasten your seatbelt. 1's Pursuit of Happiness is the ride Miranda promised - and it doesn't stop until the very last page.