Running with Scissors

Do not disturb them. They already are.

A darkly comedic, surreal coming-of-age memoir about a neglected boy thrust into an eccentric therapist's chaotic household, balancing absurdist humor with genuine dysfunction and melancholy.

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.