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. Praise for Calypso 'Sedaris is
the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses' Adam Kay,
author of This is Going to Hurt 'He's like an American Alan
Bennett' Guardian 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . .
Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much
anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian
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