Sky Isn't Visible from Here

<p>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.</p><p>Affecting honest and utterly extraordinary <em>The Sky Isn't Visible from Here</em> is a book about secrets and forgiveness--the story of a young woman unraveling . . . and then putting her life back together again.</p>