Title: Running with scissors

Author: Augusten Burroughs

Publication Details: NewYork: Picador, 2002.

ISBN: 9780312425418

Citation: Burroughs, A. (2002). Running with scissors. New York: Picador.

Burroughs's description of his deranged adolescence is unbelievable and wildly funny. At the age of 12, Burroughs is sent to live with a mentally unstable psychiatrist and his odd family, which include several of the psychiatrist’s patients. In this fiasco of a household everything was permitted and rules were unheard of, "the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock therapy machine could provide entertainment" (Goodreads)

This is a darkly humorous and harrowing account of a normal boy’s survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.

You will cry, laugh and most importantly never forget the story of Augusten.

Every home has it’s cracks and some even have crackpots!

Watch movie trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXRtYyKH1AI