PanThe Boston GlobeThe author’s dysfunctional family life in Western Massachusetts and the Boston suburbs is squarely in Running With Scissors territory; so too is her broad use of humor to depict the domestic freak show. But where Augusten Burroughs wove his horror story with rich detail, cutting insight, and plain old craft, Janowitz unloads anecdotes like freight from a dump truck — unsorted and a little smelly ... It’s hard to know how Janowitz feels; her inner world is buried under a pile of extraneous incidents, bewildering sarcasm, and whining.
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