David Sedaris goes looking for the strange on safari in Kenya, in Vatican City and in his own address book. These essays follow him through travel, family and the business of getting older.
Readical Key Points
- A collection of essays by David Sedaris; an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, according to the publisher
- Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal
- Subjects include travel in Guatemala, Vatican City and Kenya, his sisters, longtime friendships, looking after his boyfriend, Hugh, after surgery, and friends he has lost
- Hardcover, 272 pages, Little, Brown and Company (2026)
Sedaris writes about traveling overseas with his sisters, a safari taken without a single photograph, and a stint as caretaker after Hugh's hip replacement that goes only partly to plan. A language app becomes an unlikely listener as he tries to explain his relatives in a language he is still learning, and a scroll through his contacts turns into a count of the people already gone. The pieces are comic, and several are also about loss.
Longtime readers will know the voice, and readers new to Sedaris can start here: the essays can be read in any order. It suits readers of personal essays and humor writing. In these pages, the land is wherever Sedaris happens to be standing, and its people are whoever wanders into view.
About the Author
Sedaris has published fifteen earlier books, among them Happy-Go-Lucky, When You Are Engulfed in Flames and Me Talk Pretty One Day, and has written regularly for The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019; his honors include the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor.
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