Book description
'When apple-picking season ended, I got a Job in a packing plant and
gravitated towards short stories, which I could read during my break and
reflect upon for the remainder of my shift. A good one would take me out
of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the
fit . . . Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from
an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar
might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder
would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the
description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I
believed, and still do, that stories can save you'.
David Sedaris
published this book to support 826NYC, a nonprofit tutoring center in
Brooklyn, New York that helps students ages six to eighteen develop
their writing skills through free writing workshops, publishing
projects, and one-on-one help with homework and English-language
learning. Sedaris is the author of the internationally bestselling
Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day,
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in
Flames,
and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk.
