Boktipset

Han skriver om sin mamma, som kläcker ur sig kärleksfulla små ord: "I don't know how it happened, but you're mine. If that's a big disappointment for you, just imagine what I must feel."

Om farmor Ya Ya: "I recall one visit when she carried on about her recently deceased pet, a common goldfish she kept in a murky jar up on the appartment's only window ledge. Ya Ya had returned from work and, finding the jar empty, decided that the fish had consciously thrown itself out the window. 'He no happy no more and think to have a suicide', she said."

Om sin bror: "A few hours later, having decided that spoiled chicken was better than no chicken at all, he got out of bed, stepped outside in his underpants, and proceeded to eat the leftovers directly from the garbage can.

I was mortified. 'In your underpants?'

'Damned straight', he said. 'I ain't getting dressed up to eat no fish-assed-tasting chicken."

Läs, för guds skull! DAVID SEDARIS heter geniet. Jag har läst Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim och Naked och de är lika makalöst bra varenda en!