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Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris' collection of essays tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes and unwanted guitar lessons. Sedaris' career leads him to Paris, which poses a number of challenges, chief among them his inability to speak the language. Arriving a "spooky man-child" capable of communicating only through nouns, he undertakes language instruction that leads him ever deeper into cultural confusion. Whether describing the Easter bunny to puzzled classmates or watching a group of men play soccer with a cow, Sedaris brings a view and a voice like no other to every unforgettable encounter. David Sedaris is a playwright and regular commentator on NPR. He is the author of the bestselling Barrel Fever, Naked, and Holidays on Ice. He travels though Europe and the U.S. on lecture tours and lives in France. |
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An American Sunrise: Poems In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. She finds the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice. |
