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Running with Scissors
by Augusten Burroughs
A helter-skelter ride inside the mind of an eccentric genius who lives a childhood of chaos and emerges, somehow, as an author. Augusten is 13 when his bipolar mother makes her psychiatrist his legal guardian. He spends the next five years living in a crumbling house with the psychiatrist's dysfunctional family, including Neil, an adopted son who becomes Augusten's lover in an unpleasant and emotionally abusive (on both sides) relationship. The book is breathtaking in places, bold and wildly funny, but at times makes the reader's skin crawl. This close up, mental health issues are not sanitary or easily dismissed. The protagonists are constantly on the edge of disaster, and it's a wild ride.