{"id":5475,"date":"2019-04-12T06:45:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2019-04-12T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:45:13","slug":"calypso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2019\/04\/calypso\/","title":{"rendered":"Calypso"},"content":{"rendered":"

By David Sedaris\u2014<\/b>Little, Brown and Company, 2018<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

After a five-year hiatus, humorist and essayist David Sedaris returns to the bestseller list in his signature style, ruminating about family and aging (he\u2019s 62). Those new to Sedaris\u2019 writing will be quickly brought up to speed about his siblings, his sister who took her own life and his dad, now in his 90s. It\u2019s his late mother, though, who figures prominently here and whose influence continues long after her passing. Clearly, the funnyman still misses her and longs to make a true connection with his father and remaining siblings while he still can. So he purchases a beach house (names it the Sea Section) in North Carolina, where the family can gather to both get away and reminisce. Returning fans will find this essay collection as insightful, biting and funny as ever, if a bit darker at times\u2014Sedaris facing his mortality, perhaps? His observational humor targets the state of politics (no Trump fan, he) and his family members (he\u2019s tender and scathing in equal measure). If you love an I-can\u2019t-believe-he-said-that moment, this is the book for you. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a five-year hiatus, humorist and essayist David Sedaris returns to the bestseller list in his signature style, ruminating about family and aging (he\u2019s 62). <\/span><\/p>\n

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