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Title: Funny! (No, really)
Review: No. Really. Most "funny" books I read, just aren't. David Sedaris is the real thing. This is a deeply pleasurable book about family, life, homosexuality, cultural difference, and the incidental details that pass most of us by but in Sedaris' hands are grist to his humor mill.The finest parts of this memoir/cultural investigation concern his family. And Sedaris is cursed/blessed with a family that is stranger than most. His understated prose is delightful and his self-deprecating humor (he visits Ann Frank's house, suffers real-estate envy, and finds another stick with which to beat himself) saves him from accusations of fatuousness.This book made me laugh out loud and envy the lightness of touch that Sedaris brings to everyday tales of family dysfunction.
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