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BookBrowse Reviews My Friend Leonard: The follow up to Frey's infamous memoir, A Million Little Pieces

My Friend Leonard
by James Frey
Paperback, May 2006,
416 pages.
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From the book jacket: Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring.

The father figure is Leonard, the high-living, recovering coke addict "West Coast Director of a large Italian-American finance firm" (read: mobster) who helped to keep James Frey clean in A Million Little Pieces. The son is, of course, James, damaged perhaps beyond repair by years of crack and alcohol addiction - and by more than a few cruel tricks of fate.

James embarks on his...
This review was originally published in August 2005, and has been updated for the May 2006 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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