The Fragments of my Father: A Memoir of Madness by Sam Mills

My life had been suspended, as though I had inhaled and was still waiting to let out that gasp of breath.

I set aside my dreams for a future time when life might be normal again. But that night, on my mother’s birthday, as I sat and watched the sky turn from blue to black, I wondered for the first time if it ever would … There were holes in Sam Mills’s life when she was growing up – times when her dad was just absent, for reasons she didn’t understand. As she grew older, she began to make up stories about the periods when he wasn’t around...