I am currently reading David Sedaris' Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim, and that novel (Not really a novel, more like a collection of essays, which are fucking brilliant) has just blown me the hell away. Just check out this excerpt:
Lauren was Walt's sister, who was born prematurely and lived for less than two days. This had happenned before the Winterses moved to our street, but it wasn't any kind of secret, and you weren't supposed to flinch upon hearing the girl's name. The baby had died too soon to pose for photographs, but still she was regarded as a full fledged member of the family. She had a christmas stocking the size of a mitten, and they even threw her an annual birthday party, a fact that my mother found especially creepy.
"Let's hope they don't invite us," she said. "I mean, Jesus, how do you shop for ...Keep reading.











