Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David SedarisMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
One reason to read a book of essays about another's quirkily normal family, written with a sense of humor and a laugh at life's foibles is to reassure one that our family is no better or worse than any other family, that the things in our lives that we eventually laugh at are the same things that others laugh at. To that end, David Sedaris has written Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls in such a way that the reader can fully relate with Sedaris's family. Most of the essays deal with his family, childhood, health, and politics.
The book begins with "Dentists Without Borders," in which he describes visits to a French dentist. "Memory Laps" swimmingly wanders from, well, swimming, includes his grandmother moving in with the family and weaves his father's obsession (?) with the Osmond Brothers, among other bits of family history.
There are several places where the essays drag a little, making the reader feel like telling Sedaris to hurry it along or, worse yet, skip to the next essay. But for the most part, the book is well worth the read.
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