Sky Eyes

Book Title: Sky Eyes

Author: Kriss Erickson

Niche: Biography

Price: $8.50

Size: 83,300 words (312 pages paperback equivalent)

This is a well-written autobiography of a very intelligent girl who was physically and mentally abused by her parents from birth.

Intelligent people in these situations often create multiple personalities to cope. Unlike many multiple personality cases, folks with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) actually hold conversations between the personalities and are aware of each other. This is what happened with “Stacy”.

Erickson tells the story as a work of fiction, using the name of one of her real personalities, Stacy, for the main character.

Erickson (her married name) avoids sensationalizing the book by steering clear of detailed descriptions of rape by her father. Rather, she focuses on the effects of her environment upon Stacy and her other personalities. She takes us from just after her birth (which she actually remembers) through young adulthood.

The last chapter of the book describes in brief how she managed to get the help she needed to cure herself and to integrate her personalities into one functional individual.

If you have DID or know someone who does, this will help you to understand what DID sufferers go through. If you want to just read a well-written story of abuse and eventual victory, you’ll love this book. “Stacy” survives and wins, and there is something in that for all of us who have to slay dragons every day.

Not normally something I enjoy, I was captivated by the story and the dysfunctional characters.

Formats: Adobe Reader (pdf), ePub, Kindle (prc), Microsoft Reader (lit), Mobi (prc)

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Reviewed by Allan Kalar, Washington state

By it now at AKW Books