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 about their friendship and advice strikes James as stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.
The ensuing torments of detoxification and withdrawal, and the never-ending urge to use chemicals, are captured with a vitality and directness that recalls the seminal eye-opening power of William Burroughs's Junky.īut A Million Little Pieces refuses to fit any mold of drug literature.
He had so thoroughly ravaged his body that the facility's doctors were shocked he was still alive. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery.īy the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before.
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