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Running With Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

304 pages

About this book

In this unforgettable, in turns hilarious and harrowing, memoir Augusten Burroughs recounts the bizarre events of his childhood. After his parents' divorce, his mother, a delusional poet, left him in the care of her psychiatrist, a man who might have bene

Themes
Personal & Memoir-ishFunny & IrreverentSelf-DiscoverySanity in chaosFound family dysfunctionChildhood innocence lostDark humor as survival
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