I'm incredibly curious about the Road to Recovery for addicts, and this, to me, was a clear picture of how difficult and harrowing it can be. Regardless of whether or not it's a true story, it was very, VERY good! I was immediately sucked into James' story.
I'm glad I finally started reading it-it was REALLY intense and very interesting. but I was still interested in the actual story. Yes, I knew it was a work of fiction, or at least more fiction than truth. I picked it up at a book sale or in a bargain bin about a year ago, having always been curious about it. that it wasn't actually a memoir, as touted, but a work of fiction. then I heard about it again when the "truth" was "revealed". I had heard about this book when it hit the Oprah's Book Club list. *In January 2006, the author and publisher of this title acknowledged that a number of facts had been altered and incidents embellished. And he must battle the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion.Īn uncommonly genuine account of a life destroyed and reconstructed, and a provocative alternative understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery, A Million Little Pieces marks the debut of a bold and talented literary voice. He must fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart. He insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may become, which he feels runs counter to his counselor's recipes for recovery. James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive.
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