A Million Little Pieces

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping memoir about the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery from a bold and talented literary voice. By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. The ensuing torments of detoxification and withdrawal, and the never-ending urge to use chemicals, are captured with a vitality and directness. Inside the clinic, James is surrounded by patients as troubled as he is—including a judge, a mobster, a one-time world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute to whom he is not allowed to speak—but their friendship and advice strikes James as stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover. James has to fight to find his own way to confront the consequences of the life he has lived so far, and to determine what future, if any, he holds.