Algonquin Books
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FELICIA C. SULLIVAN reads from The Sky Isn't Visible From Here: Scenes from a Life
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome FELICIA C. SULLIVAN as she reads from The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life, a deeply personal and moving memoir. Sullivan’s volatile, beautiful, deceitful, drug-addicted 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, 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 realized it was time to kill her own creation. "Sullivan's bracing, pared-to-the-bone prose evokes compassion by being impressively free of the narcissistic self-worship that so often infects books of this stripe." -Kirkus Reviews
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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.
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