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.
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January 24, 2024 at 6:12 pmTitle is from the Poem “Invictus” by William Earnest Hensley.
Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloodied, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears, looms but the horror of the shade,
and yet the menace of the years finds , and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.