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Where Dreams Break: Memoir
Paperback
Adventurers & ExplorersBiographies General
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 26 2026
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An extraordinary true story of survival, loss, reinvention, and what happened when one man's pursuit of a new life.
Written lying down, published standing up. Two surgeries in NY, a hard path of survival, and an unbreakable will.
A memoir written while lying down.
He was ten years old when his family's world collapsed. Cesar Soares grew up poor in a small Brazilian town of 10,000 people - one of eight children. When his father fell financially, the boy took to the streets, shining shoes and selling popsicles to help at home. At school, an aggressive skin disease - psoriasis - made him the target of cruel bullying. He failed four grades. But he had a dream: to become a television presenter. Through grit and an unbreakable will, he achieved more than that - he built his own communication company and became an independent TV producer and presenter on one of Brazil's largest television networks, buying his own airtime. Then came a violent fall. He landed in the United States with just enough for the plane ticket and one month's rent - nothing more. He did backbreaking work and crossed the country - Boston, Las Vegas, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Jersey, New York City - more than twenty cities across six states. And then, near Times Square, another fall - this one shattered his spine. Two surgeries. A cane. A psychiatrist who told him to write. This memoir was written lying down. It is the story of a boy who refused to stay down.
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