A review by jentastic76
A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs

2.0

I've read Running With Scissors and Dry already. If I'd read this first it may have made the other two books (especially Dry) more tragic. Reading it at the end of the series though isn't the best way to read them, even though that's the order they were written in. There's no denying that Augusten had a horrible childhood and due to that a rather difficult early adulthood. The other two books had more distance to them, or perspective. He looked back on the experiences with a little bit of humor and a dry wit that made it all easier to read about. This was just horrifying tale after horrifying tale of his father's abuse of his family. There's no denying he was terrified of him and that terror rings through in every page so it's not the easiest book to read. I had to take a number of breaks and read other books just to be able to finish it.