Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

His memoir is a candid, often darkly comic account of addiction to alcohol and opioids, the treatments and relapses, and the fame that ran alongside the disease without curing it.

Perry writes with the timing of a sitcom veteran and the bleak honesty of someone who nearly died more than once, refusing to present recovery as a finished triumph. intendle recommends it as an unusually frank celebrity memoir about a common, deadly illness, made more poignant by the author's death in 2023. An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, it reached readers who grew up with him and those who recognized their own struggles in his.