Naked

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
• Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
• Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
• Holidays on Ice
• Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
• Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
• Calypso