This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. And despite the wild, endless spinning of our planet and its never-ending orbit around the sun–itself a star on fire–when we pour water into a glass, the water stays in the glass.

With gimlet eyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best. In our trees are birds whose songs are as complex and nuanced as Beethoven’s greatest sonatas. Burroughs struggles to find a family and a place in this world are not pleasant to read about, especially when you. Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection, he recounts Christmases past and present as only he can. In a universe filled with spinning, barren rocks, frozen gas, ice, dust, and radiation, we live on a planet filled with soft, green leaves and salty oceans and honey made from bees, which themselves live within geometrically complex and perfect structures of their own architecture and creation. He has given us the gold standard of snark, rants and monologues a stand-up comic could envy. There is nothing else like us for as far as our telescopic eyes can see. Burroughs’s wit isn’t just the stoic, serviceable humor required of miserable-life memoirs. To say that Augusten Burroughs has lived an unusual life is an understatement. Because we are all, every one of us, living on a round rock that spins around and around at almost a quarter of a million miles per hour in an unthinkably vast blackness called space. From the 1 New York Times best-selling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the 'un-survivable' and will challenge your notion of self-help books. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles. AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Wolf At The Table, Possible Side Effects, You Better Not Cry, Magical Thinking, Dry, Running with Scissors, and Sellevision.

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