Running With Scissors

Running With Scissors

2002 • 304 pages

Ratings103

Average rating3.6

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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

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I love his voice. The way he writes is so true to how he talks. It's great.

August 3, 2015

How can this be true? Its so wild.

January 1, 2009

Riveting and disturbing memoir. This author's writing is very immersive.

November 4, 2020