Willow Glen Books -- Women's Book Club (public event)

All women are welcome to attend Willow Glen Books' Women's Book Club, held on the fourth Monday of (almost) every month. Please note that in May, because of Memorial Day, we'll be meeting one week early! This evening, we'll be discussing Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.

David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of SantaLand Diaries, a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's. Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in this, his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his partner to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. Every glimpse we get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia.

Willow Glen Books [View Map]
1330 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose
408-298-8141

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posted by WGBA on 4/19/08