Sabrina Lewis

Running In The Clouds Sabrina Lewis

In Running in the Clouds, Sabrina draws on conversations with her great aunt and granddad, personal experiences, rotation through the foster care system, and a move to the hoods of Detroit to sketch a sharp, eloquent voyage to discover love, identity, and a sense of belonging. Sent away from the hood at a tender age by her addict mother to live with her great aunt and granddad in Miami, Florida, Sabrina's story screams the anguish of abandonment amid moments of generosity and love from her distant relatives. After seven long years of yearning to be reunited with her mother and suffering a deep loneliness, she is briefly returned in her care. The confusion and betrayal of being bounced between families from the east side of Detroit, to the west, further wounded a baby Sabrina who had to endure the trauma of the foster care system. Running in the Clouds is an illuminating and inspiring journey that pivots from nothing to everything; a peek into the complex world of a young woman struggling to forge her identity and a steadfast future with a man that's sixteen years older than her, she falls in love, by letting go of a past that taught her more than just pain.