It collects anecdotal essays about a range of situations: a talkative cab driver turning the conversation far too sexual, the experience of buying your partner a human skeleton, and spending a week with a miserable and slothful babysitter.īefore having read any of it the title evoked a familiar hyperbole to me: extreme expression or feeling you get when faced with something woefully uncomfortable.
While there were many others to choose from, this cover depicting a Van Gogh painting of a skeleton smoking a cigarette and the eye-catching title made this book hard to resist. I was drawn to read more of his work after reading Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk earlier this year.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames is the sixth book by David Sedaris originally published in 2008.
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