Naked

In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me.
Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means.
This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.

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