Genre: Memoir / Personal Development
Author & Narrator: Tiffany Jenkins
Pages / Length: 384 pages / 8 hours and 53 minutes
Publisher: Harmony (June 18, 2019) / Random House Audio
Book Description:
When word got out that Tiffany Jenkins was withdrawing from opiates on the floor of a jail cell, people in her town were shocked. Not because of the twenty felonies she’d committed, or the nature of her crimes, or even that she’d been captain of the high school cheerleading squad just a few years earlier, but because her boyfriend was a Deputy Sherriff, and his friends—their friends—were the ones who’d arrested her. A raw and twisty page-turning memoir that reads like fiction, High Achiever spans Tiffany’s life as an active opioid addict, her 120 days in a Florida jail where every officer despised what she’d done to their brother in blue, and her eventual recovery. With heart-racing urgency and unflinching honesty, Jenkins takes you inside the grips of addiction and the desperate decisions it breeds. She is a born storyteller who lived an incredible story, from blackmail by an ex-boyfriend to a soul-shattering deal with a drug dealer, and her telling brims with suspense and unexpected wit. But the true surprise is her path to recovery. Tiffany breaks through the stigma and silence to offer hope and inspiration to anyone battling the disease—whether it’s a loved one or themselves.
Thoughts:
🎧 Audio 🎧
Let me start off by saying, I absolutely LOVE #jugglingthejenkins and when I found out Tiffany had written this book, I knew I had to read it. I didn’t understand how a woman with so much life, pizazz, humor and honesty was the author of this book – and that it was an autobiography?! Never!
I absolutely loved listening to the audio of this, as Tiffany read it (I’m finding when the author is also the narrator, I’m much more entertaining). There were times my heart was racing, times I was crying, and times I was cheering her on saying, “You’ve got this!” Or “No!!! Don’t do that!!!”
This book did a wonderful job of captivating what life of an addict is like. It is something I have found hard to understand, but she wrote about in the most sympathetic and heartbreaking way.
I want more of her story! She is so inspiring, relatable and real. I loved this book for her honesty and it captured her personality to make this an enjoyable yet difficult read. I highly recommend this book!
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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