Book description
What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.
For more than twenty-five…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Best of Me as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Like all of his work, this book is laugh-out-loud funny. The situations that David Sedaris gets himself into and his oh-so-human responses connect on such a profound level.
So often, it feels like we are the only ones having such petty and self-centered perceptions. It is liberating to know that this is just the human experience.
It is also liberating to reflect on how I feel toward David reading about his life. I don’t judge him negatively or think less of him for his honesty and openness. The opposite is true. This is something I find comforting myself as someone…
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