#1 National Bestseller
A sprawling, ambitious novel about Los Angeles, written with all the broad-stroke energy that was so irresistible to readers in A Million Little Pieces. By turns satirical, tense, and surprisingly touching, it is a portrait of a city onto which so many millions have projected so many dreams… . Compelling, cinematic… . It achieves the very essence of Los Angeles’s fractured, unpredictable, loopy nature.
- Vanity Fair
A captivating urban kaleidoscope… . James Frey got another chance. Look what he did with it. He stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park… . He became a furiously good storyteller.
- Janet Maslin, New York Times
One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers an extraordinary novel - a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass through the reader’s sight lines - some never to be seen again - but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA’s lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives. A dazzling tour de force, Bright Shiny Morning illuminates the joys, horrors, and unexpected fortunes of life and death in Los Angeles.