Running with Scissors

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus.

At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor, living with the doctor’s bizarre family and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed.

The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and, if things got dull, an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment.

The funny, harrowing account of an ordinary boy’s survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.