the other book review

Just like in Me talk pretty one day Sedaris has bun­dled some of his (fam­ily) sto­ries. Every aspect of fam­ily (life), dis­cov­er­ing your­self and the ones around you, know­ing how to han­dle your par­ents and sib­lings, is being inves­ti­gated and writ­ten down in a hilar­i­ous, orig­i­nal and read­able way.

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This book con­tains of short chap­ters, each telling us a sit­u­a­tion or an episode out of Sedaris’ life. Well, you may expect this book auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal, because he uses his real name for his char­ac­ter and he tells his sto­ries in such a way, he must have lived them. The episodes are not told chrono­log­i­cal but in a way the brain works with mem­o­ries; then this one jumps up, then another one, totally ran­dom. One chap­ter you learn about how David in his twen­ties is a cool artist with his own exhi­bi­tions, the next chap­ter David is telling about all the dogs they had at home when he was a child.