Out of the Night That Covers Me
by Davis, Kandace DeLain
Published by : Editor 911 Books (St. Louis, MO) Physical details: ix, 309 pages illustrations, portraits 23 cm ISBN:9781957366166; 1957366168.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 300 - 399 | 362.2 Dav (Browse shelf) | Available | 113805 |
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| 362.2 Alc Alcoholism and related problems : | 362.2 Alc Alcoholics Anonymous: | 362.2 Col Break the cycle of alcoholism : | 362.2 Dav Out of the Night That Covers Me | 362.2 Gra Recovery : | 362.2 Mum The joy of being sober : | 362.2 Twe Caution, "kindness" can be dangerous to the alcoholic |
Contains bibliographical references (page 309).
Left an orphan at six years old in 1976, Kandace DeLain Davis grew up in Crossville, Illinois, at her grandparents' kitschy roadside motor lodge. Seven years earlier, at the Anna State Hospital, Davis's mother, Mary Ellen Stein, had met her father at what was once known as The Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane. When Mary Ellen was found dead, with a knife protruding from her chest, her family believed it must be suicide. Davis navigates through court documents and records of her mother's over one hundred hospitalizations, searching for the truth. Davis narrates her family's history and details her investigation leading to her mother's death. Not only does she reveal stories of her mother's life, but also lovingly shares anecdotes from the life of her grandmother, Faire DeLain Stein. Faire was a woman who made boundless sacrifices to protect the innocent victims of her husband's tyrannical behavior and Mary Ellen's mental illness.
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