Read The Long Journey Home: A Memoir

The Long Journey Home: A Memoir

Margaret Robison

4.9/5 (21344 ratings)

Description:First introduced to the world in her son’s classic bestseller Running with Scissors, Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting story, which she began working on long before Augusten Burroughs began working on his memoir. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern Gothic childhood, her marriage to a handsome, brilliant man who became a split-personality alcoholic and abusive husband, the challenges she faced raising two children while having psychotic breakdowns of her own, and her struggle to regain her sanity.Robison grew up in southern Georgia, where the façade of 1950s propriety masked all sorts of demons, including alcoholism, misogyny, repressed homosexuality, and suicide. She met her husband, John Robison, in college, and together they moved up north, where John embarked upon a successful academic career and Margaret brought up the children and worked on her art and poetry. Yet her husband’s alcoholism and her collapse into psychosis, and the eventual disintegration of their marriage, took a tremendous toll on their family: Her older son, John Elder, moved out of the house when he was a teenager, and her younger son, Chris (who later renamed himself Augusten), never completed high school. When Margaret met Dr. Rodolph Turcotte, the therapist who was treating her husband, she felt understood for the first time and quickly fell under his idiosyncratic and, eventually, harmful influence. Robison writes movingly and honestly about her mental illness, her shortcomings as a parent, her difficult marriage, her traumatic relationship with Dr. Turcotte, and her two now-famous children, Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, who have each written bestselling memoirs about their family. She also writes inspiringly about her hard-earned journey to sanity and clarity. An astonishing and enduring story, The Long Journey Home is a remarkable and ultimately uplifting account of a complicated, afflicted twentieth-century family. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Long Journey Home: A Memoir. To get started finding The Long Journey Home: A Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 140006869X

Description: First introduced to the world in her son’s classic bestseller Running with Scissors, Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting story, which she began working on long before Augusten Burroughs began working on his memoir. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern Gothic childhood, her marriage to a handsome, brilliant man who became a split-personality alcoholic and abusive husband, the challenges she faced raising two children while having psychotic breakdowns of her own, and her struggle to regain her sanity.Robison grew up in southern Georgia, where the façade of 1950s propriety masked all sorts of demons, including alcoholism, misogyny, repressed homosexuality, and suicide. She met her husband, John Robison, in college, and together they moved up north, where John embarked upon a successful academic career and Margaret brought up the children and worked on her art and poetry. Yet her husband’s alcoholism and her collapse into psychosis, and the eventual disintegration of their marriage, took a tremendous toll on their family: Her older son, John Elder, moved out of the house when he was a teenager, and her younger son, Chris (who later renamed himself Augusten), never completed high school. When Margaret met Dr. Rodolph Turcotte, the therapist who was treating her husband, she felt understood for the first time and quickly fell under his idiosyncratic and, eventually, harmful influence. Robison writes movingly and honestly about her mental illness, her shortcomings as a parent, her difficult marriage, her traumatic relationship with Dr. Turcotte, and her two now-famous children, Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, who have each written bestselling memoirs about their family. She also writes inspiringly about her hard-earned journey to sanity and clarity. An astonishing and enduring story, The Long Journey Home is a remarkable and ultimately uplifting account of a complicated, afflicted twentieth-century family. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Long Journey Home: A Memoir. To get started finding The Long Journey Home: A Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Long Journey Home: A Memoir

The Long Journey Home: A Memoir

More Books

The Naked Bear

The Naked Bear

Red Creek: A Requiem

Red Creek: A Requiem

Stroke

Stroke

What Matters

What Matters

I Am Your Kevin Bacon: Master Six Degrees of Connection: Embrace Diversity, Foster Harmony, Fuel Growth

I Am Your Kevin Bacon: Master Six Degrees of Connection: Embrace Diversity, Foster Harmony, Fuel Growth

Stroke Poems by Margaret Robinson (1996 paperback)

Stroke Poems by Margaret Robinson (1996 paperback)

Ruby

Ruby

Yo soy tu Kevin Bacon: acepta la diversidad, fomenta la armonía, impulsa el crecimiento (Spanish Edition)

Yo soy tu Kevin Bacon: acepta la diversidad, fomenta la armonía, impulsa el crecimiento (Spanish Edition)