Me Talk Pretty One Day book review

Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
Book Review
Reviewed by: Mehr Eliezer

Me Talk Pretty One Day, I think David Sedaris gave this memoir the title he did because of his initial speech difficulties and how nobody understood it.

This memoir is about the author and his family, it includes every one who had affected his life, and who helped him grow, and learn from his mistakes.

The format starts from his early ages and grows as he does along with the problems and difficulties of his life. This memoir is in two parts. Part one, starting from North Carolina till New York and part two, when he moves to France.

Something the memoirist learnt about himself was that he could do anything he wanted. At first he had a lisp and was very untrained in the field of writing. He was always forced to do things he didn’t want to. But he learnt from every moment and used them to help him in the future and peruse his desire of writing and teaching.

Me Talk Pretty One day is a book I would recommend to every one. It’s a hilarious memoir. Sedaris has done an excellent job of displaying his childhood memories. He talks to the reader with open arms. His memoirs consist of mind-boggling moments and extraordinary examples and demonstrations of life, as we know it. An excellent portrait of siblings and family.

Some lines I absolutely loved were:

“My father always struck me as the sort of man who, under the right circumstances, might have invented the microwave oven or the transistor radio.” (Pg. 31)

“I had no job at the time and was living odd the cruel joke I referred to as my savings.” (Pg. 94)

“Her tone of voice suggested that she was possibly begging someone for a heart or kidney, something urgent.” (Pg. 101)

“He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married and was, in the fact, quite happy to break up with her live-in boyfriend, whom she replaced with an imaginary boyfriend named Ricky.” (Pg. 131)