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Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
Review
by
Mary
E. Young
If you don't listen to NPR then you may not know who David
Sedaris is. This book, a collection of essays aobut his family
and growing up, will introduce him. Not another one of those! I
hear you cry. It's not just another coming of age memoir.
Sedaris is as funny as they come and has plenty of material
about his wacky family and their eccentricities.
The title of the book comes from an incident where Sedaris is
living in Paris and trying to learn French. The teacher says
"Happy Easter" but one student is Moslem and doesn't know what
Easter is. The students try to explain it to her but their
French vocabulary hasn't included "crucifixion" and "my only
begotten son." If you are a lover of words or have ever
struggled with a foreign language, this will have you on the
floor.
I read this book first, then immediately ordered all his others.
You will find yourself reading Sedaris's passages aloud just
because they are so funny.
 Former
PWP member
Mary E. Young
began her writing
career as editor of Ballooning Journal, a national
magazine published by the Balloon Federation of America. She has been a
staff and freelance writer and editor for magazines and newspapers for
nearly 25 years.
She is the author of a novel,
Desperate Measures,
a winner of iUniverse Editor's Choice and Readers' Choice awards, Cheap
and Easy Gardening, Arizona Waterways, and How to Make Your Airplane
Last Forever.
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