Not long ago on a trip to a used book store I came across "High on Arrival." I had been waiting years to read it, ever since I saw it on Oprah over a decade ago. I know, I know but I was intrigued by the book. So I grabbed it up when I saw it sitting on that shelf.
My copy sitting on my desk. It only took me about a week to read "High on Arrival" which was surprising to me. I managed to become so engrossed in the story of Mackenzie Phillips' life that I made time to read. That in itself is strange to me as the last two years were filled with textbooks and not time for much else unless you count work.
Mackenzie takes us through her world, not in chronological order but in the order that shapes her memories and her life as she lived it. Her willingness to take openly about drug addiction, abuse, incest and life as the daughter of a famous rock-n-roller is something few would undertake. The relationships are complicated, the love as real as the destruction.
It is not easy to put ones soul on display but she managed. The time to read was well spent, and I would suggest anyone who needs to remember that life isn't always perfect not even for those who seem to have been born into a world with everything. Nothing is as it seems, and we can all learn from the things that we know nothing about.
Mackenzie takes us through her world, not in chronological order but in the order that shapes her memories and her life as she lived it. Her willingness to take openly about drug addiction, abuse, incest and life as the daughter of a famous rock-n-roller is something few would undertake. The relationships are complicated, the love as real as the destruction.
It is not easy to put ones soul on display but she managed. The time to read was well spent, and I would suggest anyone who needs to remember that life isn't always perfect not even for those who seem to have been born into a world with everything. Nothing is as it seems, and we can all learn from the things that we know nothing about.
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