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Out of the Night that Covers Me: A Family Memoir

Out of the Night that Covers Me: A Family Memoir

Davis, Kandace Delain

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ISBN10: 1957366168
ISBN13: 9781957366166
Publisher: Editor-911 Books
Published: Sep 5 2023
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A mother's violent death. A daughter's search for answers in small town America.


Left an orphan at six years old in 1976, Kandace DeLain Davis grew up in Crossville, Illinois, at her grandparents' kitschy roadside motor lodge. Seven years earlier, at the Anna State Hospital, Davis's mother, Mary Ellen Stein, had met her father at what was once known as The Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane, after suffering from mental illness and addiction most of her adult life. When Mary Ellen was found dead in 1976 with a knife protruding from her chest, her family believed it must be suicide. Fast forward to 2015 when Davis discovered a tiny article from her local small town newspaper, dated not long after her mother's death, and Davis feared she may not have the full story. This newspaper clipping took her on a four-year journey, navigating through court documents and records of her mother's over one hundred hospitalizations, searching for the truth of her mother's death. Was this a case of die by suicide, or was she murdered?

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