The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things Author:J. T. Leroy Featuring a series of loosely connected autobiographical stories, they describe the disturbing relationship between a mother and her adolescent son as she moves from lover to lover, dressing him as a girl and forcing him to shoplift. These are shocking stories of abusive love and dysfunctional sexuality, of heartbreak and of innocence lost. Once... more » again, LeRoy's fantastical imagination and lyricism twists his haunted past into something utterly strange and magical.« less
Supposed True story of a boy abused at the hands of his mother. Even if this story is not true, it is amazingly written, and shows just what can happen in this world today.