6/21/2023 0 Comments Happy go lucky by david sedaris![]() ![]() Ronke Adékoluejo narrates this entertaining tale of 31-year-old Yinka, whose mother and aunties “are praying over her love life as if terminally ill”. Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, Penguin Audio, 11hr 18min The comic and author of Jews Don’t Count reads his passionate yet sympathetic polemic in which he argues against the existence of God. Happy-Go-Lucky is available via Hachette Audio, 7hr 30min Further listeningĭavid Baddiel, William Collins, 2hr 1min Real love, Sedaris notes, is when “you realise you’d give anything to make that other person stop hurting, if only so he can tear your head off again”. There are moments of pathos, too, such as when he finds Hugh sobbing after their holiday house is damaged by a hurricane, reminding him of the homes he’d lived in growing up in Beirut and Kinshasa that were destroyed. ![]() Sedaris delivers all this with impeccable comic timing, his tone moving between amused and indignant. “He doesn’t know shit about being an ant.” “Don’t listen to Hugh,” Gretchen tells her brother. 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. There’s his sister Gretchen, who idly Googles Sedaris and tells him: “A lot of people can’t stand you” and Hugh, his temperamental partner whom he sees through his siblings’ eyes on holiday after he reprimands them for feeding candy to the ants. ![]()
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