The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses the history of Los Angeles. Frey focuses on a handful of lost souls and spins the gripping narrative of their lives.

The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses the history of Los Angeles. Frey focuses on a handful of lost souls and spins the gripping narrative of their lives.

**#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.