![]() ![]() Ghosts are real, trees can want to kill you, beavers are the spawn of Satan, houses are alive and in the end, love is the most powerful magic of all. There are very few coincidences, as you will learn. After that, Augusten was on his own.įrom the hilarious to the terrifying, Toil & Trouble is a chronicle of one man’s journey to understand himself, to reconcile the powers he can wield with things with which he is helpless. ![]() It was a bond that he and his mother shared-until the day she left him in the care of her psychiatrist to be raised in his family (but that’s a whole other story). His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal, that he was descended from a long line of witches, going back to the days of the Pendle witches of Lancashire, England. And he told exactly no one about this, save one person: his mother. ![]() He manifested things that shouldn’t have come to pass. Intrigued? Here’s the book’s description from the publisher:įor as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn’t have known. “I wouldn’t believe in, and I would privately ridicule any idiot who did, except for one thing: I am a witch,” writes Augusten Burroughs in Toil & Trouble.īy viewing his life through the lens of the supernatural, the bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Lust & Wonder weaves a powerful memoir tackling identity. ![]()
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