While there, she recounts some of her views on fellow addicts and the trials of life on the inside. 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. Carrie 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.
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