FELICIA C. SULLIVAN
Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Out from Brooklyn, New York is Felicia C. Sullivan with The Sky Isn't Visible from Here (Algonquin), one intense memoir of growing up amongst a bad drug scene—one that embraced her mother. "Felicia Sullivan's memoir is a brave and lovely one. It's full of terrifying moments in the mean streets of Brooklyn as well as courageous ones in the complicated byways of familial love. Sullivan has created a world that's beautifully crafted and powerfully inhabited. Brava." – Roxana Robinson. "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. In 2001, Felicia Sullivan founded the acclaimed literary journal, Small Spiral Notebook, and in the course of this writing, received the 2005 Tin House memoir fellowship.

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