South on Highland, Liana Maeby
South on Highland, Liana Maeby
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South on Highland

Author: Liana Maeby

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/14/2015

Synopsis

Leila Massey, a young L.A. screenwriter, is on the verge of hitting it big when she falls into the grip of drug and alcohol addiction. Her descent into the narcotic underbelly of the city leads her to a commune in the desert, a filthy room at the Chateau Marmont, and, eventually, rehab. Will Leila continue down the dark path of addiction? Or will she make it as a successful writer? Based on the author’s own life, Liana Maeby’s brilliant debut novel is raw and haunting, and simultaneously incredibly astute and humorous. South on Highland explores true identity and questions our culture’s response to addiction and sensationalism.

About Liana Maeby

Liana Maeby was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, where she attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Interview Magazine and the Village Voice. She has been featured in Best of Twitter lists on sites like the Huffington Post, Splitsider, and Mandatory.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liana on July 26, 2015

Great book, really cool author!!!......more

Goodreads review by Jason on May 29, 2015

I received this book from Little A Publishing and NetGalley for an honest review. The official release date is July 14th 2015. "I tapped out some of the blow and snorted it with a rolled-up Post-It, my instrument of choice. There are germs on dollar bills, and germs can kill you!" This is a line tha......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on May 27, 2015

Thanks NetGalley and Little A for the ARC. What a gem. Reminds me of a Carrie Fisher book or a memoir by an aging rockstar, but unlike those two, Leila is telling her story while the wounds are still healing - she is not far removed from her battle with addiction (are you ever removed from it?). She'......more

Goodreads review by Pop on April 06, 2017

The Best L.A. Non-Fiction Is L.A. Fiction Ask Joan Didion or Eve Babitz. Heck, ask Nathaniel West. Go re-read "Less Than Zero". The best writing about L.A. is in the form of "fictive memoirs", which is an actual genre description made up just for books like this one. I don't necessarily think Maeby i......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 07, 2015

South on Highland tells the story of Leila Massey, a young girl raised in Los Angeles and unable to escape the allure, and pitfalls, of Hollywood. After starting with an addiction to Adderall she quickly spins out of control until she is raiding medicine cabinets and shooting up heroin in a trailer......more

Quotes

“[A] darkly humorous, semi-autobiographical first novel about one girl’s journey through substance abuse and creative life in Hollywood...Maeby, a gifted young writer who adeptly eschews sentimentality, intersperses a fictional screenplay throughout the text and leaves the novel’s ending convincingly ambiguous.” —San Francisco Chronicle“South on Highland is [a] funny, critical twist on addiction.” —New York Daily News“I loved it. The book reminded me very much of one of the first books one of my mentors told me to read when I moved to Hollywood, Less Than Zero.” —Ryan Holiday, New York Observer

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