Running with Scissors is a darkly comedic, bestselling memoir by Augusten Burroughs detailing his bizarre, neglectful childhood in the 1970s. After his parents divorce and his mother suffers a mental breakdown, twelve-year-old Augusten is sent to live with her eccentric psychiatrist, Dr. Finch, in a filthy, chaotic Victorian house.
Running with Scissors is a darkly comedic, bestselling memoir by Augusten Burroughs detailing his bizarre, neglectful childhood in the 1970s. After his parents divorce and his mother suffers a mental breakdown, twelve-year-old Augusten is sent to live with her eccentric psychiatrist, Dr. Finch, in a filthy, chaotic Victorian house.