David Sedaris, When You’re Engulfed in Flames
I went off the list again, because it’s not every day that you find a book that is so captivating as this one. With a cover image borrowed from Van Gogh, a title originating from something the author saw while travelling in Japan, and essays many of which were previously published in the New Yorker, this collection is one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. 
Sedaris has a great sense of humor. Not the kind of sense of humor that makes you chuckle he says something funny. His sense of humor is wry, silly, and translates perfectly to the page. There are one too many passages that will make you start laughing while reading it before going to sleep and many that you will try to remember to read for people the following day. The humorous passages come together to weave a unique view of an American childhood, surrounded by family members, an adolescence of repressed sexuality, finally coming to terms with being gay, and life with a lifelong partner. 
If I had a rating system, I would give this one a resounding 5. I cannot recommend it enough. 

David Sedaris, When You’re Engulfed in Flames

I went off the list again, because it’s not every day that you find a book that is so captivating as this one. With a cover image borrowed from Van Gogh, a title originating from something the author saw while travelling in Japan, and essays many of which were previously published in the New Yorker, this collection is one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. 

Sedaris has a great sense of humor. Not the kind of sense of humor that makes you chuckle he says something funny. His sense of humor is wry, silly, and translates perfectly to the page. There are one too many passages that will make you start laughing while reading it before going to sleep and many that you will try to remember to read for people the following day. The humorous passages come together to weave a unique view of an American childhood, surrounded by family members, an adolescence of repressed sexuality, finally coming to terms with being gay, and life with a lifelong partner. 

If I had a rating system, I would give this one a resounding 5. I cannot recommend it enough.