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Sky Isn't Visible from Here A Memoir

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ISBN-10: 0061765325

ISBN-13: 9780061765322

Edition: N/A

Authors: Felicia C. Sullivan

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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,…    
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Book details

List price: $13.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Felicia C. Sullivan is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best American Essays notable. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, and Pindeldyboz and in the anthologies Homewrecker: An Atlas of Illicit Loves and Money Changes Everything, among others. Sullivan was the recipient of the 2005 Tin House memoir fellowship, and in 2001, she founded the critically acclaimed literary journal Small Spiral Notebook. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Prologue
Fighting Shoes
Of My Kind
Where the Boys Go
Cut
Black Magic
The Language of Strangers
Pale House
Desperate Creatures
Points of Entry
The Vertical Journey
The Burning I Can't Remember
The First Daughter
Reunion
Where Bodies Go
Atlantic City
Stop-Times
Before Cocaine
Acknowledgments