By: Augustin Burroughs
Published: 2002
Genre: memoir
I read this in 2005 and wrote the following:
True story of a boy whose mother gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist.
What a sad book! Some of the promos described it as "hilarious" and "as funny as it is twisted." It just made me so sad that this boy grew up with such horrible experiences and a lack of normalcy. His homosexual awakening and the bizarre things he experienced saddened me. He was used for others' purposes instead of nurtured and loved.
<Above written September 2005. Below added 5.24.2026.>
I vividly remember how horrified I was that his memoir was so painful to me to read, yet it was promoted as humorous. I've avoided other books by him since then. (But I'm still working on moving reviews from my old Excel sheet into this blog, which I had started before I knew what Goodreads was.)
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