This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Running With Scissors</i> comes a groundbreaking book by Augusten Burroughs that explores how to survive what you think you can't.</b></p><p>If you're fat and fail every diet if you're thin but can't get thin enough if you lose your job if your child dies if you are diagnosed with cancer if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person if you always end up alone if you can't get over the past if your parents are insane and ruining your life if you really and truly wish you were dead if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star if you believe life has a grudge against you if you don't want to have sex with your spouse and don't know why if you feel so ashamed if you're lost in life if you have ever wondered <i>How am I supposed to survive this?</i></p><p>This is How.</p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><strong>Amazon Best Books of the Month May 2012</strong>: In writing and in life Augusten Burroughs has repeatedly summoned the courage to grab the wolves of his past by their foaming muzzles and peer into their wild eyes until he owns them--and because of this he's survived nearly every horrific experience a person in a modern-day first-world country could face and emerged as an as"onishingly well-adjusted person. After turning his profoundly messed-up early life and its alcoholic aftermath into six harrowing?? uplifting memoirs--including <em>Running with Scissors</em> and <em>Dry</em>--Burroughs lost interest in writing about himself. He kept meeting people who were locked in the same st