David Sedaris | The Land and Its People

Join us for an evening with New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris, for a discussion about his newest book, The Land and Its People.

Please note, this is an event with two different types of tickets.

Ticket Option #1 - The first option is a paid ticket available in extremely limited quantities due to store capacity and fire code. That ticket ensures a seat to the event and includes a hardcover copy of The Land and Its People. Check-in for this will begin at 5:30pm.

Ticket Option #2 - The second option is an unpaid ticket. This is admission to our signing line to meet David. Admission is free, but it would be greatly appreciated if you support your indie bookstore through the purchase of The Land and Its People. Also, pre-ordering your copy is the only way for us to guarantee proper stock for the evening of the event and we do not want to disappoint any of our amazing customers or David's amazing readers by running out of our supply!

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is extremely important to understand that the timing of the signing line only ticket is unpredictable. Queing for the line can begin no earlier than 4pm (out of respect for our neighbors) and it is possible you will be in line for several hours, so please plan accordingly. We will do our best to create a wonderful experience for everyone and David is so excited to meet with his readers, but that will require patience and understanding for all parties involved!

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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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