![]() ![]() He observes with amazement that they seem to have learned how to entertain themselves with conversation. In the first essay, “Us and Them,” Sedaris spies on a neighboring family, the Tomkeys, to try to understand how they manage without television. He characterizes his parents and siblings as people who manage to stand out in any community, no matter how liberal or eccentric. The first handful of essays in the collection deal with Sedaris’s early childhood on the East Coast. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim received positive criticism for its vivid portrayal of many peculiarities of suburban American life. ![]() The collection, Sedaris’s fifth, focuses primarily on memories of his dysfunctional and eccentric family in North Carolina. Each of the essays reflects on a different part of his early life, blending his trademark cynicism with an acute sensitivity to the absurdities of seemingly banal experience. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is a 2004 collection of twenty-two autobiographical essays by American humorist David Sedaris. ![]()
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