Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs, 2002
A memoir of a wildly unstable childhood, told with a child's dread and a survivor's deadpan comic timing.
Augusten Burroughs
Burroughs worked in advertising in New York and San Francisco before publishing Running with Scissors; the memoir was adapted into a 2006 film.
Feels like family, memory and dread.
What a parent's accent does to the shape of a sentence.
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. Books by Augusten Burroughs
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