A childhood favorite that has held up in repeated adult readings! 19-year-old Anne Hobbs is my hero: in the 1920s she moved to tiny Chicken, Alaska to become a schoolteacher, and her honesty and courage shook up the whole town. Funny, exciting, and no hint of sappiness… It’s just a darn good read.
David Sedaris discusses & signs When You Are Engulfed in Flames
06/29/2008 5:00 pm
Location:
Street:
Vroman's Bookstore
Additional:
695 E. Colorado Blvd
City:
Pasadena
,
Province:
California
Postal Code:
91101
Country:
United States
Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day) returns with a new masterpiece of comic writing, as making a pot of coffee unleashes a chain of memory that leads him literally around the world. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life -- like armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds -- to the most deeply resonant human truths, all rendered in Sedaris