Family ties
Sedaris's family life and early adulthood are the subject of his latest book
Self-deprecation is Sedaris's stock in trade, reality literature his speciality, and once again his family life and early adulthood are the subject of this latest collection of comic autobiographical pieces.
They range from early childhood - Sedaris and his sisters locked out of the house in the snow by his depressed mother - to the present, with Sedaris's adolescent anxieties about his sexuality and his pathological sense of personal failure casting subtle, doleful shadows over his gently observations of the human zoo.
Sedaris is a much-loved humorist but this latest underwhelming book follows familiar and much-travelled territory.
