Review
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...