The Sky Isn't Visible from Here
A Memoir
On Sale: 04/28/2009
The Sky Isn't Visible from Here
A Memoir
On Sale: 04/28/2009
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About the Book
Days before Felicia Sullivan graduated from college, her mother disappeared; she hasn't been heard from in more than twelve years. It was possibly the last betrayal her mother, a beautiful, volatile, deceitful drug addict, would add to those that built their relationship, which subjected Felicia to a nightmare childhood on the toughest streets of 1980s Brooklyn. Growing up in the close company of dealers, users, and a host of unsavory characters, Felicia became her mother's keeper at a shockingly young age—getting her to the hospital after her overdoses, enduring her cruelty and narcissistic rages, and accepting the abuse or indifference of numerous so-called stepfathers. Years later, damaged and ashamed of her past, Felicia invented a new, brutally hard-partying persona to show to the world: she became her mother.
Affecting, honest, and utterly extraordinary, The Sky Isn't Visible from Here is a book about secrets and forgiveness—the story of a young woman unraveling . . . and then putting her life back together again.
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780061765322
- ISBN 10: 0061765325
- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 04/28/2009
- Pages: 288
- List Price:17.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Activities
- BISAC2 : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General
- BISAC3 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous
- BISAC4 : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Military Families
- BISAC5 : PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction
- BISAC6 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BISAC7 : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / Child Abuse
- BISAC8 : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families
- BISAC9 : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings
- BISAC10 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
