Joshua Safran, "Free Spirit: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid" | Talks at Google

Audiences were first introduced to attorney and author Joshua Safran in the critically acclaimed 2011 film Crime After Crime (Sundance, Oprah Winfrey Network) which documented his seven-year struggle to free a battered woman from prison where she was serving a life sentence and in the process uncovered massive legal corruption. But what wasn't told in the film was just as dramatic: Safran's own childhood story which in no small measure explains why he took on this case in the first place. Now in Free Spirit: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid, Safran tells of his survival against all odds on the "dark side" of the Age of Aquarius. Hitchhiking for years around the American West with his Wiccan welfare mother in the 80's, Safran didn't attend school until 6th grade, living in buses, utopian communes, on a tree stump and even in an ice cream truck. Eventually, his mother married an abusive, alcoholic, ex- American guerilla-fighter who made Safran's life unbearable.

In Free Spirit, Safran reveals how he overcame adversity and became a lawyer with an imperative to give back. Safran has won numerous awards for his advocacy on behalf of women and victims of domestic violence. Come see why Safran has been described as one of the next generation's most inspired spiritual leaders and why Publishers Weekly called Safran's book "reminiscent of David Sedaris's and Augusten Burroughs's best work: introspective, hilarious, and heartbreaking."

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