In them he finds reasons to try to heal himself. But he meets a fellow patient, Leonard, who will not give up on him, his brother gives him a copy of the Tao Te Ching, which speaks to him more profoundly than anything he reads in the AA literature, and he falls in love with Lilly, a beautiful and doomed crack addict. That he completely rejects the clinic's Twelve Steps program makes his recovery seem even less likely.

Balancing on the razor's edge between hope and despair, Frey describes the writhing delusions of withdrawal, the constant need of addictions screaming to be fed, and the blinding Fury that overtakes him and makes him want to run. His ordeal inside the clinic is hardly less harrowing. A few more drinks, the doctors tell him, will kill him. He is wanted in three states for crimes ranging from DUI and resisting arrest to assaulting an officer, attempted incitement of a riot, and felony mayhem.

His body is shot, and his mind is in an almost constant rage of self-hatred and destructiveness. He took everything he could find, and as much as possible: Cocaine, crack cocaine, crystal meth, PCP, glue, and alcohol in quantities so great he blacked out every day for years. When he arrives at a famous clinic in Minnesota, he is nearly dead from a decade of drug and alcohol abuse so spectacular even doctors who have spent their entire careers treating addicts are amazed. It was revealed that parts of his 'memoir' were fabricated.Ī Million Little Pieces is James Frey's scorching account of his descent into the hell of addiction and the brutal journey to recovery. In 2006, this book and its author became the subject of a highly publicized controversy-after Oprah had selected it as one of her books.

Sequel to a million little pieces