My Friend Leonard

My Friend Leonard is the heartrending story of a friendship between a newly-sober James and the charismatic, high-living mobster he met in rehab, Leonard.

My Friend Leonard picks up right where Pieces leaves off. It is James Frey's story of his friendship with Leonard, the larger-than-life mobster who "adopted" James as he left rehab. Leonard offers James lucrative, if illegal, mysterious, and slightly dangerous employment when he needs it. He is a man of secret deals, of surprising passions that belie his violent career choice, of fantastic generosity and ferocious loyalty. Leonard has been holding on to some remarkable secrets, and he has invested in their friendship more than James could ever imagine.

My Friend Leonard is, at its core, about the responsibility that comes with loving someone and going out on any number of limbs to care for them. And it is a book that proves that one of the most provocative literary voices of his generation is also one of the most emphatically human.

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New York Times bestselling follow-up to A Million Little Pieces — The New York Times