Dress your family in corduroy and denim

No one renders the pathos, chaos, and impossible variety of daily encounters like David Sedaris. On every subject, he is bruisingly painful and tenderly affectionate. Sedaris is unique in American writing, and these readings of his own work are highly skilled performances. No one renders the pathos, chaos, and impossible variety of daily encounters like David Sedaris. On every subject, he is bruisingly painful and tenderly affectionate ... Read more... Abstract: No one renders the pathos, chaos, and impossible variety of daily encounters like David Sedaris. On every subject, he is bruisingly painful and tenderly affectionate. Sedaris is unique in American writing, and these readings of his own work are highly skilled performances. No one renders the pathos, chaos, and impossible variety of daily encounters like David Sedaris. On every subject, he is bruisingly painful and tenderly affectionate 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. Performed by the author—with his hilarious, wry delivery—this painful, funny and absurd collection will prove why he’s America’s favorite humorist Content: Disc 1: Us and them -- Let it snow -- Ship shape -- Full house -- Consider the stars -- Disc 2: Monie changes everything -- Change in me -- Hejira -- Slumus lordicus -- Disc 3: Girl next door -- Blood work -- End of the affair -- Repeat after me (Live) -- Disc 4: Six to eight black men (Live) -- Rooster at the hitchin' post -- Possession -- Put a lid on it -- Disc 5: Can of worms -- Chicken in the henhouse -- Who's the chef? -- Baby Einstein -- Nuit of the living dead. With Dress Your Family in Courduroy and Denim, David Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain, hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists betwen people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds