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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.
Riveting and disturbing memoir. This author's writing is very immersive.
This was a very hard book for me to read. My sister recommended it to me because it was so close to our own childhood experiences. Because of that, I had to take breaks between reading chapters just to ease my mind.
I recommend this book to anyone who has grown up in a dysfunctional household if you can stomach it.