A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris

A Carnival of Snackery by David SedarisThere's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street; collecting Romanian insults, or being taken round a Japanese parasite museum. There's a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then

they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations

rupi kaur constantly embraces growth

Discover what we know about their bodies

tragic but ultimately hopeful

The feeling grows as he shares jokes with the resident ghost

Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple - and vice versa

With his brother dropping out of university and the family reeling from Luca's diagnosis

a poem about the nuclear stalemate

how to find and honour their 'truth'

funnier and a lot more interesting than life as we generally know it

The result is this magisterial work that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist

'A delight from start to finish