![]() ![]() The house is squalid, entertainment consisting of free-roaming children watching a dog poo on the living room carpet, and other tests to conventional notions of hygiene and sanity. The Finch matriarch eats dog food and remains oblivious to the madness around her. The Finch familyĪugusten lives with the Finch family, a pseudonym, where the patriarch is a Santa-look-a-like who indiscriminately offers Augusten pharmaceuticals and condones the boy’s affair with an adult male client, which looks a lot like paedophilia. When she ships him off to live with her Northampton psychiatrist, Augusten enters an eccentric world where life is likened to - running with scissors. Running with Scissors opens with the American 10-year-old, Augusten, living with his neurotic mother, a chain-smoking aspiring poet who when, after divorcing, becomes a lesbian feels cramped by her son’s presence. ![]()
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