The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox.

RELEASE NOTES:

Leaving this talked about book at the best burrito/taco place in town.

Compelling and could not put it down. It was inspirational in that you want to stay well and alive.

Leaving this book at Kaiser Medical Center, where it has been picked up.