My Friend Leonard

The heartwarming tale of a relationship between a recently sober James and the colorful, high-living gangster he met in treatment, Leonard, is told in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to the #1 New York Times novel A Million Little Pieces.

The first book chosen for Oprah Book Club by a live author in more than two years was A Million Little Pieces. With over 1.7 million copies in print, it quickly rose to the top of the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists.

The story of My Friend Leonard begins where Pieces ends. Before the Oprah choice, My Friend Leonard was a New York Times bestseller. It tells James Frey's tale of friendship with Leonard, the legendary gangster who "adopted" him after he came out of rehab. When James needs work, Leonard provides him with a strange, somewhat perilous, and profitable job—albeit one that is unlawful. Leonard, of the covert transactions, of the unexpected impulses that contradict his brutal profession decision, of incredible generosity and fierce allegiance. Leonard, who has put more effort and money into their relationship than James could have ever imagined, and who has been keeping some amazing secrets.

Fundamentally, My Friend Leonard is about the obligation that accompanies loving someone and going above and above to provide for them. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that one of his generation's most daring literary voices is also one of the most genuinely human.