David Sedaris will be in the Book Cellar on Tuesday, June 14th at 6PM. To sign and discuss his new book, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. This is a ticked event - a book purchase is required to attend. All customers who purchase a book at Page & Palette and attend the event can have their book signed and personalized by Mr. Sedaris.
TICKET INFORMATION
Book Cellar Tickets - $39.00, includes the book and priority admittance to the event. Seating is unassigned and limited to 100 guests. Wristbands will be provided for entry into the Book Cellar. These guests will be the first group in the signing line.
General Admissions Tickets - $29.00, includes the book and general admittance to the event. Guests will be able to hear Mr. Sedaris throughout Latte Da and Page & Palette. These tickets will be numbered, designating guests’ place in the signing line.
Mr. Sedaris is happy to sign and personalize HAPPY-GO-LUCKY and other titles for every guest in line. Books purchased online will be signed, but not personalized.
At Mr. Sedaris’ request, photographs are not permitted.
Signed copies of HAPPY-GO-LUCKY can be purchased online and shipped nationwide: https://www.pageandpalette.com/books/signed-happy-go-lucky-by-david-sedaris-no-personalization
A former student, Cindy House, will provide a short opening act for Mr. Sedaris. Her memoir, MOTHER NOISE, is also available for purchase.
Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.
But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.
As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter.
In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris.