Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Summary and book reviews of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, plus links to an excerpt from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and a biography of David Sedaris.

The new, eagerly awaited collection of personal essays from the author of the #1 bestseller Me Talk Pretty One Day. David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.

Media Reviews

The New Yorker Sedaris has a satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathanael West.   O Magazine [David Sedaris] has come up with a sophisticated, wildly vibrant valentine of a collection that ultimately pays tribute to the convoluted connections between people...   Bookpage As in his previous collections.... Sedaris' tales crackle with the quirkiness that has become his cachet, declares Bookpage, ....readers will find themselves in stitches over [his] delirious accounts.   Time Out New York No one walks the tightrope between hilarity and poignancy quite like Sedaris   Wall Street Journal Sedaris' book is a Sunnier alternative to the best of this season's weighty biographies and novels.   Denver Rocky Mountain News If wit were measured in people, David Sedaris would be China His talent is that huge.   Boston Book Review David Sedaris's brilliance resides in a capacity to surprise, associate, and dissociate, and the result is something like watching lightning strike in slow motion. . . . One of the most shameless, acid, vaulting wits on planet earth.   Publishers Weekly In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart....what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy.   Booklist - Donna Seaman Sedaris' piquant essays are as meticulously honed and precisely timed as the best stand-up comic routines, which is, of course, what they are.   Kirkus Reviews Sedaris's sense of life's absurdity is on full, fine display, as is his emotional body armor. Fortunately, he has plenty of both.

Recent Reader Reviews

Rated of 5 by Linn
He puts the fun in dysfunction!
A brilliantly funny book that proves you can have a very unfunny childhood and still laugh about it ( after the fact!). His dry wit and turn of a phrase left me smiling. I felt like I knew him and his family. He puts the fun in dysfunction and came...   Read More

Rated of 5 by Alex
Hilarious
This book comes with many laughs. Although I never got the whole naked barbie doll for a cover. I remember I started this book in a waiting room. I guess its odd watching a 14 year old girl laughing out loud while reading a book with a naked barbie...   Read More

Rated of 5 by Absolutely Satisfied
A Must-Read
After reading this book, it has flown to the top of my top favorites list. Hilarious, touching, and brutally honest, I found this to be a completely captivating compilation of well written stories.

Rated of 5 by Anonymous
At my age, 14, this kind of humor is all I expect out of a book. My mom was listening to it in the car on the way to camp, and I didn't get what was so funny, but then three years later, I'm here, listening to it and I hardly have enough breath...   Read More

Rated of 5 by MG
This is laugh-out-loud funny - a terrific read!

Rated of 5 by Rho
I was expecting a lot of laughs from this book. Many people said it was very funny. I found it very sad, and felt sorry for him. The family life was not funny to me. It is a dysfunctional family, which I have found ALL families are. But to...   Read More

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