A Million Little Pieces is a partially-fabricated Frey admitted in interviews that he had embellished central details of his purported incarceration for "obvious dramatic reasons." [LINK: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html] The Man Who Conned Oprah memoir by James Frey. It tells the story of a 23-year-old alcoholic and drug abuser and how he copes with rehabilitation in a Twelve Steps-oriented treatment center. Released widely on April 15,2003 by Doubleday Books, a division of Random House, the book garnered international attention after it was reported in January 2006, that the book contained fabrications and was not, as originally represented by the author and publisher, a completely factual memoir. Before the embellishments of his book were reported, the book received mixed feedback. While some critics, such as Pat ConroyConroy is quoted in an article by David Kamp titled