Psychic Junkie
A Memoir
-
-
3.0 • 1 Rating
-
-
- $10.99
-
- $10.99
Publisher Description
The future lies ahead.
BUT YOU CAN PAY FOR A PREVIEW.
When her promised stardom fails to materialize, struggling actress Sarah Lassez finds solace in psychics who predict the coming of the man of her dreams. She's sure she's found him in Wilhelm, a suave hotel sous-chef from Germany. But mayhem ensues when she takes the words of the psychics over the words of her actual boyfriend and is convinced he's about to propose -- when in reality he's planning to leave the country . . . without her.
Sarah's world dissolves into a haze of credit card debt, loneliness, and a raging addiction to psychics that threatens to destroy her finances, her relationships, and her sanity. She knows she needs help. But getting it will mean confronting the fact that life is not to be controlled or predicted, and though dealing with reality isn't always easy, at least it doesn't cost $4.99 a minute.
Psychic Junkie is a true story of life and love in Los Angeles, narrated by an endearing protagonist whose search for answers will resonate with everyone who has ever tried to make sense of career, relationships, and adulthood.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This lively, tongue-in-cheek "addiction" memoir by an actress trying to make good in Hollywood quickly fizzles into a tedious diary of boyfriend angst. Lassez was declared by a trendy magazine as one of 12 "Actors to Watch" and yet one year later she's scraping by on welfare and with so few calls for work that her agent is hard-pressed to remember who she is. An introduction to a psychic proves to be the beginning of the end: Aurelia reads a star-studded destiny in the author's tarot cards. "Never had I so much faith in others' abilities to recognize my abilities," Lassez gushes. This morsel of hope prompts the author to rely increasingly on Aurelia's predictions about cleansing her aura and dating men fated for her. Still struggling with her career by age 30, she challenges Aurelia's rosy predictions and begins a disastrous dalliance with one phone psychic after another, who all assure her that the Knight of Wands is on his way into Lassez's life. In the end, heartbreak and poverty force her to recognize the folly of putting her life on hold for a man who might never come, and she emerges from this chirpy, can-do narrative as Mirabel the Psychic, who salves other people's heartaches.
