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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY - DAVID SEDARIS KARTONIERT (TB)

Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper  and wearing a mask-or not-was a
decision made mostly on Halloween  David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As
Happy-Go-Lucky opens  he is learning to shoot guns with his sister  visiting muddy flea markets
in Serbia  buying gummy worms to feed to ants  and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair
jokes. But then the pandemic hits  and like so many others  he's stuck in lockdown  unable to
tour and read for audiences  the part of his work he loves most. To cope  he walks for miles
through a nearly deserted city  smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a
day  fails to hoard anything  and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be
getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality  Sedaris too
finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger's teeth rebuffed  he straightens his own 
and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned  he considers what it means  in
his seventh decade  no longer to be someone's son. And back on the road  he discovers a
battle-scarred America: people weary  storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs 
walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich.
Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter. In Happy-Go-Lucky  David Sedaris once again captures what is
most unexpected  hilarious  and poignant about these recent upheavals  personal and public  and
expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all.
If we must live in interesting times  there is no one better to chronicle them than the
incomparable David Sedaris.

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