In this phenomenal #1 bestseller, David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks.
He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler.
He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t it?Yet Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below the surface, exposing a world alive with hidden motives and obscure desires.
In DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM, one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today gives us his richest book yet.
I read this last week, and while parts of it were hilarious, parts of it weren't as funny as I'd expected. I've heard a lot about this author, and this is the first of his books that I've read. Not... more
I read this last week, and while parts of it were hilarious, parts of it weren't as funny as I'd expected. I've heard a lot about this author, and this is the first of his books that I've read. Not incredibly impressed, but I'll read another one.