The Sky Isn't Visible from Here

by Sullivan, Felicia C.

• ISBN13: 9780061765322
• ISBN10: 0061765325
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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.

Author Biography

felicia c. sullivan is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and a Best American Essays notable. She is the founder of the critically acclaimed literary journal Small Spiral Notebook, and she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. ix
Fighting Shoes	p. 3
Of My Kind	p. 15
Where the Boys Go	p. 34
Cut	p. 67
Black Magic	p. 81
The Language of Strangers	p. 101
Pale House	p. 122
Desperate Creatures	p. 132
Points of Entry	p. 154
The Vertical Journey	p. 161
The Burning I Can't Remember	p. 184
The First Daughter	p. 187
Reunion	p. 195
Where Bodies Go	p. 209
Atlantic City	p. 230
Stop-Times	p. 242
Before Cocaine	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 257
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