A Wolf at the Table

From the author:'My father doesn't feature much in Running with Scissors. And one of the reasons for this is because he didn't feature much in my life. But there's another reason too: Our relationship was so complicated so dark so confusing and so big that to tell the story would require a book. So finally upon the death of my father in 2005 I decided to tell the story I have been most afraid yet most compelled to tell.'This prequel to international hit Running With Scissors tells the story of Augusten's relationship with his tormented father: a man who sent his wife mad and saw his other son run away from home prior to Augusten going into foster care. Harrowing insightful and amusing by turns.