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A Wolf at the Table
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father | Augusten Burroughs
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"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes...I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?" When Augusten Burroughs was small, his father was a shadowy presence in his life: a form on the stairs, a cough from the basement, a silent figure smoking a cigarette in the dark. As Augusten grew older, something sinister within his father began to unfurl. Something dark and secretive that could not be named. Betrayal after shocking betrayal ensued, and Augusten's childhood was over. The kind of father he wanted didn't exist for him. This father was distant, aloof, uninterested... And then the "games" began. With A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs makes a quantum leap into untapped emotional terrain: the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son. Told with scorching honesty and penetrating insight, it is a story for anyone who has ever longed for unconditional love from a parent. Though harrowing and brutal, A Wolf at the Table will ultimately leave you buoyed with the profound joy of simply being alive. It's a memoir of stunning psychological cruelty and the redemptive power of hope.
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britt_brooke
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I love Augusten Burroughs. #wolves #junetuz

Jokila What a creepy cover! 7y
Cinfhen So stacking this!! And I love the wolf background 💕 7y
Hobbinol ❤️ 7y
britt_brooke @Cinfhen It's so good. He's one of my favorite authors. 💚 7y
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The.Intentional.Reader
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Book haul from a thrift store today. Love thrift store books!

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JessAF
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This book will rip your heart out.

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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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#dysfunctionalfamilies I saw another posted by this author "Running with Scissors" for this day in the photo challenge. This story broke my heart - he is the unhappiest man I've ever read about. I was so torn apart after reading this one that I haven't been able to read anything else by Burroughs. He's so painfully damaged because of his family- his father, as he writes in this memoir.

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GoldenGirl
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Although this book was slow to start, I ended up enjoying it immensely. I'd read his other books, so the shock of his childhood wasn't....shocking. Great read for those who like traumatic childhood memoirs.