Her Story Could Be Your Story. And It's Almost Mine.

When I first met Felicia Sullivan, it was in a crowded room at BlogHer. I knew her only as a business contact from Parent Bloggers Network -- someone who we greatly enjoyed working with on countless numbers of campaigns.

So when I heard her first memoir was to be released in February 2008, I was surprised. She seemed so young. A novel, maybe? But a memoir?

As you might have read thanks to the PBN book tour for The Sky Isn't Visible From Here, Felicia's harrowing and heartwrenching story is enough to fill more than the pages she has written in her book.

A young girl made to be a parent of her own mother for her own survival. A young girl vowing not to turn into her mother. A young woman almost doing just that.

This book captures the cycle of addiction, abuse, and abandonment in a way that makes you want to put the book down. Not because it's boring or uninteresting, but because you don't want to believe it's true.

I believe that every person can relate to one part of Felicia's story. Perhaps your childhood wasn't as challenging. Perhaps you didn't have a coke addiction. But we've all struggled with finding our way and vowing in one way or another to NOT be like our parents, only to find ourselves being sucked into that trap.

For many, it's not a big trap. But it's still there. "I will never be like my mother or my father."

And yet, the cycle of life makes it impossible for us to escape.

The book itself reads extremely easily. The story jumps around in what are more short vignettes and less a long dramatic story. Her words are breathtaking; perhaps the story could tell itself, but thanks to Felicia's writing, it does more than tell.

It speaks.