Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

This book tells the story of a young boy that has a chaotic and unconventional childhood, he is sent to live with his mother's eccentric, and later abusive, psychiatrist, Dr. Finch, and his bizarre family.

This book contains; alcohol/addiction, alternate gender/sexual ideologies, animal cruelty/death, bestiality (implied), child neglect/abuse, controversial cultural, gender and religious commentary, deviant content, depictions of squalor, derogatory terms, divination, drugs, dubious consent, failure of mandated reporters, inflammatory religious commentary, masturbatorium room, mental illness, obscene sexual activities/nudity, pedophilia, potentially potentially patently offensive content, potentially prurient content, profanity, smoking, stealing (minor), staged suicide attempt, statutory rape, violence, and voyeurism.

Not allowed in American prisons.