Laura's review
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
Laura's review
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Laura's review
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Burroughs is one of my absolute favorite writers and I've been anxiously anticipating his new book for months. I was also eager to read this book because it's about his father and who doesn't have a few daddy issues, eh?
I also grew up with an emotionally distant father who could say hurtful things, but I didn't live in fear of my father in the way that Burroughs did. My parents fought, but I never thought that my father might physically harm my mother. If Burroughs' dad was a Level 10, mine was like a Level 6.
I'm actually thinking about sending a copy of this book to my father for Father's Day with the inscription, "I guess you weren't such a bad father after all."
This book is definitely different from his others. His other books are full of his witty humor, but this story is dark. I was just trying to think of any little funny part and I couldn't come up with anything from the whole book. Nope, nothing.
A very good read. I was sad to reach the final pag...more
I also grew up with an emotionally distant father who could say hurtful things, but I didn't live in fear of my father in the way that Burroughs did. My parents fought, but I never thought that my father might physically harm my mother. If Burroughs' dad was a Level 10, mine was like a Level 6.
I'm actually thinking about sending a copy of this book to my father for Father's Day with the inscription, "I guess you weren't such a bad father after all."
This book is definitely different from his others. His other books are full of his witty humor, but this story is dark. I was just trying to think of any little funny part and I couldn't come up with anything from the whole book. Nope, nothing.
A very good read. I was sad to reach the final pag...more
