Pleasing introduction
A copy of Dress Your Family etc was given to me by a friend, with an enthusiastic recommendation, and served as my intro to humorist Sedaris. A collection of family and daily life-based stories, some are LOL funny, some are poignant, and a few are merely snide. Among my favorites are the hilarious Dutch Christmas essay and final vignette, a tale about a carload of European tourist who stop at the Sedaris house in his French “willage”, and David sees the contents of his home through their eyes. The other members of the Sedaris family, with the exception of his sassy, intelligent mom, could not be more different from David, and not only because he is gay. His knack for nail-on-the-head characterizations is outstanding, but he does not allow the comic aspects to obscure the human ones. Witty and wise without being preachy or maudlin.
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