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Running with Scissors is Augusten Burroughs’s autobiographical account of his youth, beginning when his poet mother donated him to a psychiatrist who becomes a father‑figure in a ramshackle Victorian mansion in Amherst, Massachusetts. Surrounded by a bizarre family, restless patients, and a disordered household, Burroughs finds no school, no rules, and a reliance on medication and unconventional therapies. The memoir paints a vivid, unfiltered portrait of childhood in an unconventional setting, highlighting how early experiences shaped his later life and writing.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Memoir/Family Memoir
Authors: Augusten Burroughs
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