Happy-Go-Lucky

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David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller” (Los Angeles Times), returns with a new collection of personal essays. As Happy-Go-Lucky begins, he reflects on life before the pandemic, engaging in activities like learning to shoot guns with his sister, exploring flea markets in Serbia, and sharing wheelchair jokes with his elderly father. However, when the pandemic strikes, he finds himself in lockdown, unable to tour and connect with audiences. To cope, he takes long walks through a nearly empty city, vacuums his apartment twice daily, and ponders the lives of those struggling during quarantine. As the world adjusts to a new reality, Sedaris experiences personal changes. After a stranger declines his offer to fix their teeth, he focuses on his own, stepping out with newfound confidence. Now orphaned, he reflects on the significance of no longer being someone’s son. Back on the road, he observes a weary populace, storefronts either empty or displaying Help Wanted signs, and graffiti that captures the contradictions of contemporary society. In this collection, Sedaris masterfully explores the unexpected, humorous, and poignant aspects of recent upheavals, both personal and public, articulating the misanthropy and yearning for connection that define our experiences. If we must navigate these interesting times, there is no better chronicler than David Sedaris.