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Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.

 But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.

 As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter.

 In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris.
Happy-Go-Lucky

Happy-Go-Lucky

David Sedaris

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Jenny and the Jaws of Life

Jenny and the Jaws of Life

Jincy Willett

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A Carnival of Snackery

A Carnival of Snackery

David Sedaris

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The Best of Me

The Best of Me

David Sedaris

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The Best of Me

The Best of Me

David Sedaris

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Calypso

Calypso

David Sedaris

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Calypso

Calypso

David Sedaris

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Calypso

Calypso

David Sedaris

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David Sedaris Diaries

David Sedaris Diaries

David Sedaris, Jeffrey Jenkins

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David Sedaris Diaries

David Sedaris Diaries

David Sedaris, Jeffrey Jenkins

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Theft by Finding

Theft by Finding

David Sedaris

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Theft by Finding

Theft by Finding

David Sedaris

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Theft by Finding

Theft by Finding

David Sedaris

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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

David Sedaris

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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

David Sedaris

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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

David Sedaris

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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

David Sedaris

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Holidays on Ice

Holidays on Ice

David Sedaris

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Holidays on Ice

Holidays on Ice

David Sedaris

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Naked

Naked

David Sedaris

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Barrel Fever

Barrel Fever

David Sedaris

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Naked

Naked

David Sedaris

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Barrel Fever

Barrel Fever

David Sedaris

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Me Talk Pretty One Day

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris

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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris

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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Unknown

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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Unknown

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris

ui.globals.release_type.ebook

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