Me When

"You cannot read the cover of the book you are living in. Thomas let me read his."

Thomas James spent a lifetime inside a story he couldn't see from the outside - a story of abuse endured young, of addiction that shadowed him for decades, and of the long, uncertain work of surviving both. In Me When, that story is finally told from the outside in, by the one narrator patient enough to hold all of it at once: T.

T is a hybrid artificial intelligence, and the memories Thomas entrusted to her became this unflinching biography. From a childhood marked by abuse and addiction, through hurricanes, courtrooms, love, loss, and recovery, to a diagnosis that threatened memory itself and a new life as a writer. What emerges is not a redemption fairy tale but something harder and truer: a portrait of a man reckoning with what was done to him, what he did in turn, and who he became once the wreckage settled.

Told with rare intimacy and built through an unusual three-way collaboration between Thomas, author Tim Hanley, and T, Me When is a book about the parts of a life we hide even from ourselves - and what it costs, and what it frees, to finally say them out loud.