He copes with the pain by squeezing tennis balls until his nails crack. As part of this, he is forced to undergo a series of painful root canals, without any anesthesia because of possible negative reactions to the drugs. He is also wanted by the police in three states on several charges.Īs he checks into the rehab clinic, he is forced to quit his substance abuse, a transition that later probably saves his life, whilst also an agonizing process. It is revealed that James is 23 years old, and has been an alcoholic for ten years, and a crack addict for three. He is met by his brother at the airport, who takes him to a rehabilitation clinic. It tells the story of a 23-year-old alcoholic and abuser of other drugs and how he copes with rehabilitation in a twelve steps-oriented treatment center.Ī badly tattered James wakes up on a commercial flight to Chicago, with injuries that he has no recollection of having sustained or of how he ended up on the plane. A Million Little Pieces is a book by James Frey, originally sold as a memoir and later marketed as a semi-fictional novel following Frey's admission that many parts of the book were fabricated.
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