Never Let Me Down

Description:

Susan J. Miller grew up in Washington Heights, New York, in the 1950s in a family whose lack of money, roots, and happiness appeared to have no definable cause. When she turns twenty-one, her father's casual revelation of his fifteen-year heroin addiction brings vertiginous uncertainty to every memory but is also the key to her past. By means of a structure that subtly circles and repeats - generating powerful momentum - she retraces the innocence and deceptions of a childhood lived at a distance from a crucial truth.

subjects: Case studies,  Drug addicts,  Family relationships,  Children of drug addicts,  New York Times reviewed,  Adult children of dysfunctional families,  Adult children of drug addicts,  Adult child abuse victims,  Fathers and daughters,  Women, biography,  Social service

People: Susan J. Miller (1949-)

Places: United States