It's been a decade since his last adult novel but Frey - who Time described as "America's most notorious writer" - after the controversy surrounding his 2003 debut A Million Little Pieces, a memoir which contained more fiction than truth, is back.
Katerina skips back and forth between Los Angeles in 2017 - where we see main protagonist Jay as a jaded writer turned entertainment hot-shot and Paris in 1992 when he is just starting out.
Reading Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer sets him on a whirlwind re-evaluation of his life - and within a few pages he's dumped his girlfriend and sold enough cocaine to afford a plane ticket to the City of Lights.
Despite similarities with Frey's own life (a Milleresque trip to Paris when he was 21; he now heads the phenomenally successful entertainment company Full Fathoms Five) this is being marketed as a novel.
Jay might have gone to Paris to pen the Great American Novel but all he really does is drink a lot, go to art galleries and float failed manuscripts down the Seine.
