The protagonist is called Augesten, a developing boy.
His mother, who always thought she was a poet, was a sensation when she recited on stage. But the manuscripts she sent were always rejection letters.
His father, a math professor, was an alcoholic and would sometimes beat his wife. (If I had married this crazy woman, I would have done the same.)
Then Augesten's parents divorced, and his mother, living on the sedatives prescribed by the doctor named Fitch, started to be less aggressive and demented. She gave custody of the child to the already neurotic psychiatrist Dr. Fitch.
Fitch's home is very strange, Mrs. ANNINE is an old lady who only treats dog food as snacks, even though her wish is to keep the home well. The eldest daughter, HOPE, is her father's assistant, a woman who decides whether or not to eat fried fish with the help of the Bible. The little girl, NATALIE, is the most normal, but because she is a child of FITCH, she can't go to the kind of school that is both male and female.
Augesten could only adapt to this crazy world. He skipped class and went to the cinema to pass the time. Not enough 15-year-olds have sex with 35-year-olds. Smashing the ceiling in the kitchen with NATALIE...a crazy guy in this crazy world.
He will reflect and hope to have rules to restrain himself. When there is no more freedom, people, or naturally, are confused, lost, and have a strong desire to run back to where they started. The extreme of happiness is sometimes the beginning of sadness.
He eventually ran away, and when his 35-year-old man was gone, when he saw the mother, who was insanely motherly, only when it was a critical moment, went to New York. This may not be the starting point of his life, but at least it is a place bounded by boundaries.
Say no to the mother who has been delusional for decades and still doesn't know how to improve, and the adoptive mother Annine who loves herself and gave her a private couple to her, say no, and the crazy world where he has lived for more than ten years. The ending of the story, Augesten became a well-known advertising creative in New York, published a book, and wrote a screenplay, both called Running With Scissors
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