Book of the Month

Title: A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father
Author: Augusten Burroughs
Pages: 256

I can’t believe December and Christmas is here and upon us already. Bring on the stress and the food! As you know, each month it gets harder and harder to pick my book. Sometimes, I pick a book inspired by the holiday of that month. Sometimes I just pick the “it” book of the moment; you know, the one everyone’s talking about. Sometimes I pick something by a favorite author or just something I am looking forward to reading. This month’s pick I think takes all these ideas and rolls them into one. Not only have I read Augusten Burroughs before and enjoyed him but I have been looking for just the right book of his to read next. Plus whenever I mention that I love David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs comes up. It seems like a book that has been staring at me but that no one I know has read. And when I think Christmas I think of families and their relationships. And the relationship between father and son is one that has always fascinated me. It seems like this relationship above all others shapes the son. It’s the one relationship on which the most hangs. And in this book Burroughs takes a look at his life with his own father. Burroughs brings us behind the curtain and down the rabbit hole. It may not make for light fluffy reading but I for one can’t wait to sink my teeth into this one. Give it a try and hopefully you will be reading my thoughts on it soon.