A kiss a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak regret and pain the melancholy of age. Katerina the explosive new novel by Americas most controversial writer is a sweeping love story alternating between 1992 Paris and Los Angeles in 2017. At its centre are a young writer and a young model on the verge of fame both reckless impulsive addicted and deeply in love. Twenty-five years later the writer is rich famous and numb and he wants to drive his car into a tree when he receives an anonymous message that draws him back to the life and possibly the love he abandoned years prior. Written in the same percussive propulsive dazzling breathtaking style as A Million Little Pieces Katerina echoes and complements that most controversial of memoirs and plays with the same issues of fiction and reality that created nearly destroyed and then recreated James Frey in the global imagination.