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Me Talk Pretty One Day
A work of Non-fiction by David Sedaris
Subgenres:
- Humor Essays,
- Expat Memoir,
- Paris
This book is for you if you're into...
- Expat essays full of Paris misadventures and language fails
- Sharp family portraits with offbeat, biting humor
- Snarky takes on everyday annoyances and modern absurdities
This vibrant collection of expat essays from legendary humorist David Sedaris is a cause for jubilation. Sedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as "Me Talk Pretty One Day", about his attempts to learn French.
His family is another inspiration—"You Can't Kill the Rooster" is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.
Sedaris is one of America's best-loved authors, and his biting essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he's ever written. (At last, someone even meaner than the French!) The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humor that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had a love child.
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