En mil pedazos

Imagine that you wake up on an airplane. You don't know where you've been or where you're going. You have four missing teeth, you have a broken nose and a cut on your cheek. You go without a wallet, you don't have a job and the police are looking for you. Imagine that you have been an alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three. What would you do? At twenty-three, Frey entered a detox center. Almost irretrievably destroyed physically and mentally, he was faced with a difficult decision: accept that he would not be twenty-four or drastically change the course of his life. Surrounded by patients in the same situation, Frey fought against the dogma of "how to recover" to find his own way and decide what future, if any, was the one he wanted to achieve. His testimony, In a Thousand Pieces, became a literary phenomenon, until a long investigation discovered that the author had fictionalized more than one passage of the book, which sparked a great controversy. Yet it remains a hypnotic and enlightening reading about a man whose raging drive for self-destruction is only matched by his inexhaustible desire to survive.