What happens when you reveal your family’s darkest secret in a memoir?

In a new trade paperback edition (coming on February 22) of High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips wrote  about her family’s response to her dark memoir. Phillips–the daughter of Mamas and the Papas rock star, John Phillips–wrote of an extended incestuous relationship with her father.

Here’s how her family reacted, an excerpt from the upcoming paperback: “To my family, it felt like I was breaking from them. This is the nature of a family where incest germinates … my family stayed loyal to the cult of my father … The book came out in the fall. My siblings invited me to Thanksgiving, then univited me. But not all of my family disappeared. My mother, who loved my father and still does, was unflinchingly supportive and proud.”

This week People Magazine explored excerpts from Mackenzie Phillips‘ dark memoir, “High on Arrival.” Internet readers played with her shocking allegations like literary catnip, but will it sell when the book debuts on Wednesday?

Phillips–the daughter of Mamas and the Papas rock star, John Phillips–writes of an extended incestuous relationship with her father. Her shocking story of incest has grabbed literary headlines all morning and climbed the Google Trends chart. The memoir talks about her days as a drug-addicted teen television star on One Day at a Time.

Here’s more from the publisher: “As a young woman she joined the nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father’s trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father.” (Via The Daily Beast)