Author event with David Sedaris

Parnassus Books is thrilled to present an evening with David Sedaris to celebrate his new book, The Land and Its People.

This ticketed event will take place at Parnassus Books 3900 Hillsboro Pike, Suite 14, Nashville, TN 37215.

Tickets:

Please be aware there are two ticket types for this event

• Event Admission + Signing Line + Book ( $33.00) - This ticket comes with a general admission seat to the in-store book talk at 6:30, one copy of The Land and Its People, and admission to the signing line.
• Signing Line Admission ONLY + Book ($33.00) - If the store reaches maximum capacity for seated event tickets, this signing line only ticket will become available for purchase. Attendees with this ticket will line up outside the store, and will not have entry inside until after the reading, at 7:30 p.m. Each signing line only ticket comes with a copy of The Land and Its People, and guarantees a spot in the signing line after the reading.

Please note that for both ticket types, the included copy of The Land and Its People will not be pre-signed. Customers who want their copy signed and/or personalized should plan to wait in the signing line.

Rules and Guidelines:

• There is to be NO photography, recording, or video for the entire evening, reading, or signing. No exceptions.
• David will sign/personalize any number of books per attendee, but he will NOT sign a copy he has previously signed.
• David will NOT sign his sister's books or books by another other authors

Parking:

There is ample free parking in front of the store, as well as in the lot and garage behind the store.

About the book:

In The Land and Its People, his collection following Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend.

He tries on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh's hip-replacement surgery, and both succeeds and fails. He buys his sister a cape and discusses his brother with a jaded Duolingo bot. He walks dozens of miles with his friend Dawn and challenges her to eat a truck tire. Ever adding to his list of "Countries I Have Been To," he rides a horse named Tequila in Guatemala, buys a bespoke priest's cassock in Vatican City, and goes on safari in Kenya without taking a single photo.

There is sadness here--scrolling through his address book, he realizes how many dear friends are now deceased--but also delight: he revels in authors' biographies, the malapropism that becomes a decades-long inside joke, and pair of well-made cotton underpants. He is bitten by a dog. A train passenger vomits in his face. A woman on the street late at night either sexually harasses him or doesn't. Look how hard it is to be alive!

Throughout these essays--at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound--Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity this fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.

About the author:

David Sedaris is the author of fifteen previous books, including Happy-Go-Lucky, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and Me Talk Pretty One Day. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor.

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