Suzanne Vale is an actress who has succumbed to the horrors of addiction and finds herself in a treatment facility. In her first piece of fiction, Fisher seeks to relay some sentiments through this quasi-biographical story. Read this book - or just watch the movie. She will eternally be an icon due to Princess Leia, but I think she should be remembered for being a fucking awesome chick in general. When Hollywood snubbed her for daring to get old and *gasp* fat, she reiterated why I adored her by giving them the middle finger (and eventually reprising the role that made her famous). Not because she kicked ass in a galaxy far far away, but because somehow she managed to kick it just by being herself. I read this book when I was basically a kid and Carrie Fisher became my hero. Postcards from the Edge is a semi-autobiographical story about Carrie after coming out of a stint in rehab. (Confession: I'm not a ginormous Star Wars fan myself.) I am a huge Carrie Fisher fan, though, and it's mainly due to this book. That sounds hateful, but I don't really give a shit mean it to be. It is a revealing look at the dangers-and delights-of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity.Ĭarrie Fisher died today and now the interwebs are exploding with billions of fangirls who never watched a Star Wars movie until the Manic Pixies told them they should. I establish a pattern with somebody and then I notice when they're not there?" Sparked by Suzanne's-and Carrie Fisher's-deliciously wry sense of the absurd, Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs. Conversations with her psychiatrist-"What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I haven't had enough therapy to be comfortable with having found him?" a high-concept, eighties-style affair-"The only way to become intimate for me is repeated exposure.
More of a fiction montage than a novel in the conventional sense, this stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne's vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences-from the clinic to her coming to terms with life in the outside world. When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, she's feeling like "something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting." Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a "drug hospital." Just as Fisher's first film role-the precocious teenager in Shampoo-echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing, her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood.
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