Book review: Running With Scissors

I’ve read lots of non-fiction lately and why I chose this book on my last trip to the USA, I really don’t know. I guess the title stuck out and I was looking for something different. Different it is. It is memoir about growing up in a totally dysfunctional family. When I say totally dysfunctional I mean it.

Augusten Burroughs tells the tale of growing up with a non-functioning mother and being farmed off to live with her psychiatrist’s even crazier family. The stories are really quite unbelievable and to think that Burroughs did eventually fine his core and become a successful writer is a tribute to the ability of people to survive all kinds of influences.

Burroughs memoir is indeed memorable, tragic-comic spectacle of a read. Don’t even think the thought that your family was dysfunctional. Nothing compares to this. Enjoy the read.