![]() To get back in, the older kids devised a plan wherein the youngest, affection-hungry Tiffany, would be hit by a car: “Her eagerness to please is absolute and naked. Or the story of the time his mother, after a fifth snow day in a row, chucked all the Sedaris kids out the door and locked it. He draws some of the material from his youth, like the portrait of the folks across the street who didn’t own a TV (“What must it be like to be so ignorant and alone?” he wonders) and went trick-or-treating on November first. ![]() Once again we are treated to the author’s gift for deadpan humor, especially when poking fun at his family and neighbors. Known for his self-deprecating wit and the harmlessly eccentric antics of his family, Sedaris ( Me Talk Pretty One Day, 2000, etc.) can also pinch until it hurts in this collection of autobiographical vignettes. ![]()
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