Happy-Go-Lucky could serve as a textbook to readers dealing with the end times of their own parents with whom they don't get along.'- Brian Boone, Vulture David Sedaris is the standard against which all other humor essayists are judged, the overwhelming heavyweight of the genre. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all.

And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone's son. His offer to fix a stranger's teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. About the Book The author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring.ĭavid Sedaris, the 'champion storyteller,' ( Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things.

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