This was one of Augusten Burroughs sweeter books, if anyone could call his writing “sweet.” As usual, it is pretty raw as he describes his recovery. But it is also touching and shows his compassionate side. One of my favorite quotations: “It’s the kind of friendship that’s easy to make in elementary school when you’re six or seven. You let a kid have your swing and suddenly he’s you best friend. Suddenly you don’t care that you hate math, because you can hate it together. And after school you want to play together. You never question it. You never say to yourself, ‘Am I spending too much time with him?’ Then you get pubic hair and everything changes. Pubic hair signals the beginning of your demise. After pubic hair comes high school, college, work. By the time you’ve started working, you’re ruined. And you will never make a friend as completely and easily as you did when you still wiped your nose on your sleeve. Unless, it seems, you are forced into rehab.”