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reads2cope's review
1.25
This book had beautiful and hilarious parts to it, but the privilege Sedaris brags about annoyed me more than in his previous work. I continue to hope that the pandemic is making people more community-oriented, but I continue to be disappointed. Sedaris boasts about breaking stay at home rules, cared more about his favorite stores being looted than the goals of BLM, brags about how he and his sister bought the apartments above theirs during this housing crisis (and hardly use them), uses the slur for Romani people, and is generally so privileged that he stopped reading the news all together after Biden won (an argument to be made that liberals disengaging after winning elections is why nothing Democrats promise on the campaign trail gets done once in office but I could write my own book on that.)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief and Death of parent
Minor: Body shaming, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Drug use, Fatphobia, and Racial slurs
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