me talk pretty one day by david sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day
By David Sedaris

David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day contains a variety of cynical, witty, and unconventional essays that hold the tone and the reader’s interest throughout the book. While describing his timeless scars from the “girlish pitch and excited tone” of his own voice in middle school, to his addictions to pathetic art and methamphetamines, Sedaris offers a view and a voice like none other.
Each story is unique and short, each written in different styles while avoiding confusing language, while still making nearly constant references to things that require a more matured life experience. (A few references to the bible and others to politics are not something that every reader can understand.) Stories range from short and punchy, to more journalistic. No chapter is more than twenty pages, and in the brief accounts of his life, he integrates the events leading up to the piece, and often adds the outcome of his outrageous adventure....