If you crawl into the mind of a gay man from the Deep South with an outstanding lisp, you are going to find some twisted and hilarious thoughts.
Even if you have already read the book twice, you will not put it down so that you can take a pee break.
That's how uproariously funny it is.
David Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day" captivates the reader with sardonic humor and anecdotes from his life.
He is a master at constructing comparisons between his own life and vivid descriptions of well-known media.
The reader is drawn in by this and is able to fill in the blanks with their own mind's eye.
Sedaris' outlook on the big and small of a child's life are described in such a dark way that you can't stop reading.
He keeps that same childish point of view when he describes his adult life, too.
This collection of short stories begins with him being singled out for his lisp.
He recounts the tortures of speech therapy and relents that he would have rather have lost a limb than have a speech impediment.
It's almost as if you are there witnessing his smart-ass banter with the speech therapist.
He tells of his strange home life with his newly emigrated Greek family in the Carolinas.
The reader gets to learn of Sedaris' hopes and dreams, and how he attempts to achieve them.
Feeling different and misunderstood, he believed that he should be an artist.
When he fails at that, he joins a group of modern misfits who get high on cocaine and put on grotesque live art shows.
Sedaris recounts coming out to his family and the string of torrid love affairs that followed.
The book winds down in France, where he once again finds himself in the role as a student of language.
Sedaris has an uncanny ability to make a connection between himself, the reader, the important and the minutia.
In the end, it all seems relevant.
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