I nominated Me Talk Pretty One Day for a few reasons:
1. The text is well written, witty, poignant, funny, touching and thought provoking.
2. Since each chapter is a different story or essay, it’s easy to pick and choose specific parts of the texts to focus on without losing continuity of a plot.
3. Sedaris’ essays discuss a variety of issues that our students can relate to and learn from. A few topics include his attempt to learn a different language (perhaps this will put into perspective many of the language challenges students face), ethical decisions, and dealing with multicultural issues, the complexity of relationships with family and friends, questions of identity and career choices. All provide interesting fodder for freshman discussion.
4. The text would work across the disciplines and every department could find something that would relate to their course curriculum.
5. It’s a manageable page limit and, again, easy to break up into smaller sections. The language is also easily accessible, yet college-level.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and was inspired to read more of his work…sometimes laughing out loud while reading it.
(Submitted by Alexa Dimakos)
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