In his new book, David Sedaris lifts the veil of boring everyday life, revealing the absurdity lurking in it. His world is full of strange desires and secret motives, where forgiveness occurs by itself, and cold rationality may turn out to be the highest form of love. Reading Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Cotton, you understand that before us is one of the smartest and most original writers of our time in the prime of his craft.