Raised by an overly critical mother in a small Southern town, she had dreams of being an artist. Robison says she wanted to write the book so she could have a better understanding of her life. In fact, she says she began it long before his was published. But Robison is emphatic that her book is not a response to her son's. Now, her own memoir gives Margaret Robison a chance to explain her side of the story. "And they sought couples counseling with a psychiatrist." very, very heavy alcoholic," Burroughs says. "She had a very difficult marriage with my father, who was a. However, Burroughs went on to say there were many times when the light left her eyes and she would get a look that meant that the exuberant mother was gone, replaced by a woman with a serious mental illness, trapped in a bad marriage. She filled her life with a lot of projects and interests." Or she would be talking on the phone - she had lots of friends. "She would paint, and if she wasn't painting, she would be writing, and if she wasn't writing, she would spend hours and hours doing a pen and ink illustration. "My mother was always very exuberant," he told Terry Gross. Burroughs doesn't want to talk about his mother's memoir, either, but he did speak about her several years ago in an interview on Fresh Air: But the book he wrote, under the name Augusten Burroughs, hurt her deeply and the two no longer speak. The fact is, she knew her son as Chris Robison, and she has fond, warm memories of him. COMMENTARY: The Terror of Mother's Sewing Machineįor the Robison family, one truth is that Augusten Burroughs is a stranger to Margaret Robison.
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