Now living in St. Louis, Kandace DeLain Davis has released a new family memoir detailing her family’s dramatic battle with mental illness while living in Crossville. Out of the Night that Covers Me follows Davis’ long search for answers behind family tragedies including her mother’s reported suicide and the decades long domino effect of unhealthy lifestyle choices made by previous generations.
The book has reached #1 in Midwest Book Releases on Amazon and speaks to the rising suicide rates, struggles to overcome addiction, and poor treatment of mentally ill individuals that continue to plague families today.
Davis will be a guest on WROY’s Open Line on February 1st just after the Ten at 10am News. Following, she’ll be available for a book signing event at the Carmi Library from 11am – 2pm. The book chronicles her parents meeting at a hospital for the so-called insane at the time. When Davis was just 6, her mother killed herself. She says it wasn’t in a “normal” way and that the truth was so ugly that protecting her from it was the only option. “This book is about my family, in hopes that other struggling families will have a better outcome.”
If you miss the Open Line with Davis, it will be made available for on demand consumption later in the day through the Local News section of WRUL.com. Get the book at https://www.amazon.com/Out-Night-that-Covers-Me/dp/1957366168.
