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Book Review of High On Arrival

High On Arrival
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I just finished this book with tears in my eyes and a big "Wow" in my head. Mackenzie Phillips life story is one of the bravest and most interesting memoirs I've ever had the honor to read. Truly inspiring, she is one amazing woman, there is no "poor, little pitiful me" anywhere in her book, it's told with such amazing candor that it almost leaves me speechless. I'm not sure how to word all this but I know I came away with a deeper understanding of addiction and even learned some things about myself while reading it. I felt her struggles and her pain as I have felt them myself, she put into words things that I cannot. For that I thank her for sharing her story in the hopes that it will help others who struggle with addiction and ghosts from their past. I HIGHLY recommend this memoir to everyone, even those not interested in addiction, I believe everyone could learn something from her story.