As always, Sedaris has a knack for finding where the blithe and innocent intersect with the tawdry and lurid: “His voice had an old-fashioned quality. Much of the book has a dark edge, as it recounts the decline and death of his 98-year-old father Sedaris voices still rankling resentments-”s long as my father had power, he used it to hurt me”-and recounts his sister’s accusations that their father sexually abused her. There are cats too, grease-covered from skulking beneath cars, one eye or sometimes both glued shut with pus.” He faces mask sticklers in a Target checkout line, sees a drunken mask scofflaw on a flight, and communes with BLM protesters while deploring their “lazy” slogans. The author covers rude service workers, difficulties in his own life, and goings-on in “Eastern Europe countries no one wants to immigrate to” where “hugs guard parked BMWs and stray dogs roam the streets. Unrest, plague, and death give rise to mordant comedy in this intimate collection from Sedaris ( Me Talk Pretty One Day).
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