A review by jfbfsf
Dry by Augusten Burroughs

4.0

He's a good writer who's had an incredible/awful life. He makes all of his ordeals seem like funny fodder for a later story... which obviously, they are (or become). But for me there was a slight undercurrent of uneasiness with the easy breezy, funny presentation of things like childhood rape, alcoholic blackouts, and the death of one's best friend. It's amazing that Burroughs has been able to move beyond the traumas he's experienced, and has found such insight and wit in the midst of misery. But at time I felt like he was selling himself short, and making light of experiences which could not have been heavier.