Running with Scissors (2006)

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he’s handed off to his mother’s therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch’s bizarre extended family.

• 1970s
• adoption
• based on novel or book
• becoming an adult
• husband wife relationship
• marriage crisis
• sibling relationship
• therapist