The Sky Isn't Visible from Here

by Sullivan, Felicia C.

• ISBN13: 9781565125155
• ISBN10: 1565125150
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-05
• Publisher: Algonquin Books

Summary

Felicia Sullivan's volatile, beautiful, deceitful, drugaddicted mother disappeared on the night Sullivan graduated from college, and has not been seen or heard from in the ten years since. Sullivan, who grew up on the tough streets of Brooklyn in the 1980s, now looks back on her childhood--lived among drug dealers, users, and substitute fathers. Sullivan became her mother's keeper, taking her to the hospital when she overdosed, withstanding her narcissistic rages, succumbing to the abuse or indifference of so-called stepfathers, and always wondering why her mother would never reveal the truth about the father she'd never met.Ashamed of her past, Sullivan invented a persona to show the world. Yet despite her Ivy League education and numerous accomplishments, she, like her mother, eventurally succumbed to alcohol and drug abuse. She wrote "The Sky Isn't Visible from Here", a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, when she realized it was time to kill her own creation.

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. 256
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