Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris 257 pages
David Sedaris is one of my most favorite authors. His take on life is the stuff behind the closed door in your house with all that junk hiding that he throws open the door and tells everything about with such wit and truth. He could make the telling of anything funny and does it with such joie de vivre. He can find a funny way of sharing anything and often does so with his family as his topics, or his lover, or basically anyone and anything including being the butt of his own jokes in such a hilarious way, I hate to come to the end of his books. He is fabulous! No matter what he is talking about the story comes out in such a way that you will find yourself laughing out loud. Be it tales of his younger brother, Paul, who out of all the siblings turned out to be a redneck but may just have the most normal family life of them all. From giving directions to a Norwegian group of seniors while at the same time trying to eradicate a mouse, to the fellow who while David was cleaning his house insisted on David letting him take his blood sugar to so many other stories. David lifts up the rug to show all the stuff that has accumulated there then stops to discuss the stories attached to each,, all of which are worthy of a stand-up routine on Comedy Central. Bravo, David Sedaris for another wonderful book. Yes, I recommend this book to middle-schoolers on up. Even the iffy parts are funny and not as bad as you might think. Another best seller for David Sedaris.
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