Never let me down
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Susan J. Miller.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Miller, Susan J., 1949-; Children of drug addicts -- United States -- Case studies.; Drug addicts -- United States -- Family relationships -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
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.