Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs, remembering his childhood, relates a horrifying picture of his mother basically giving him away to her psychiatrist and his bizarre family. No child should have to endure the psychological torture that this young man underwent. However, through the author’s gift for story-telling, he shares his personal story in a way that presents it with humor and easy readability. Perhaps because of the journaling he did when he was young, he is able to present with great clarity his reactions to those situations that befell him. This book is well worth the read to show that, despite the adversity of his childhood, the author was able to achieve a degree of success as a young man through his chosen career of writing.… (más)