The Sky Isn't Visible From Here

A breathtakingly honest portrait of a woman who survived the childhood from hell with a violent and abusive addict mother, only to face her own deadly battle-with herself.

Swaggering down mean streets, Rosie was once beautiful, impetuous and wild, afraid of no-one. Cocaine turned her into a monster her child could not recognise.

As a little girl Felicia Sullivan was forced to become her mother's keeper, rushing her to hospital when she overdosed, withstanding her terrifying rages and abusive boyfriends, and wondering why she wouldn't tell the truth about her real father. In The Sky Isn't Visible From Here, Sullivan looks back on her life among drug dealers and substitute 'fathers', the high and terrifying lows of her mother's cocaine addiction, and her battle to escape the same fate.

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, eventually 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 realised it was time to kill her own creation.

Felicia C. Sullivan is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a Best American Essay notable and recipient of the 2005 Tin house memoir fellowship. In 2001 she founded the critically-acclaimed literary journal Small Spiral Notebook. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The Sky Isn't Visible From Here
Harper Collins Publishers Australia
Author: Felicia C. Sullivan
ISBN: 9780732288051
Price: $29.99