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“As a little boy, I had developed a wish that my father had used me to the woods where there is a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It had been the thing we’d ever before done mutually as daddy and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of the one never left me. And sometimes…I wasn’t altogether sure about a very important factor: was it just a dream?”

When Augusten Burroughs was small, his father was a shadowy occurrence in his life: an application on the stairs, a cough from the basement, a silent figure smoking a cigarette at night. As Augusten grew older, something sinister within his father started to unfurl.  Something dark and secretive that cannot be named. 

Betrayal after shocking betrayal ensued, and Augusten’s childhood was over. The kind of father he wanted didn’t are present for him. This father was distant, aloof, uninterested…

And then your “games” initiated.

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 tale for anyone that has ever longed for unconditional love from a father or mother. 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 emotional cruelty and the redemptive power of hope.