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![]() ![]() Meanwhile, as his mother succumbs to increasingly frequent psychotic episodes, she and Augusten begin to spend time with Dr. Shortly thereafter, his father takes leave of the family and becomes completely unresponsive to Augusten’s attempts at communication. His early memories are of vicious fights between his mentally unstable mother and his alcoholic father, who part ways when he is twelve. As my grandmother always tells me, ‘If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry’-and Burroughs’s memoir, RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, exemplifies this philosophy.īurroughs grew up in Western Massachusetts, adjacent to the Smith College campus, an idyllic setting that provides a stark contrast to the chaos of his youth. If he had taken to heart every trauma of his childhood, he would never have made it to adulthood-much less to his status as a New York Times bestselling author. If any writer has mastered the art of finding humor in the grotesque, it’s Augusten Burroughs. ![]()
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