![]() ![]() (Well, he uses them to highlight the comedy of his everyday life, which I’ll admit has a higher level of inherent humor than I can find in my own.) Earlier collections focused almost entirely on Sedaris’s own childhood, but he spends a good amount of time in Happy-Go-Lucky focusing on other children, through exercises such as imagining what it might be like to be a child in a time of school shootings. Sedaris has often relied on the alternate insight and obliviousness of children to highlight the comedy of everyday life. Just a heads up, the most uncomfortably frank essay investigates his father’s consistent sexual comments about his daughters and one daughter’s accusations of sexual abuse. He shares his phobia of looking at his own teeth (this checks out: have you ever seen a photo of him smiling with them visible?), a touch of regret about the last words he said to his father, and the immensely uncomfortable tension of being the subject of at least one youth’s sexual awakening. He approaches each of these challenges with his characteristic witty ire, but a few of the essays did leave me thinking about more somber topics like the mortality of my parents and the horror of training children to deal with school shootings.Īs always, Sedaris is often shockingly candid. ![]() But if you’re a devotee of Sedaris’s work, I think you’ll enjoy this collection. If those topics don’t sound like cause for rejoicing, well, fair. The best of INDY Week’s fiercely independent journalism about the Triangle delivered straight to your inbox. ![]()
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