If you like Augusten Burroughs, his memoir Running With Scissors in particular, then you will be equal parts mesmerized and horrified by Ariel Leve’s memoir An Abbreviated Life. Leve’s mother was also an unstable poet and while her father was in her life he was literally across the world from her in a time before Skype or even email. Leve’s mother, the poet Sandra Hochman, was unstable on her best days and abusive on her worst. Her mother craved her daughter’s love and affection, something a young […]