Quitting smoking is hard enough… especially when it’s part of your shtick. When You Are Engulfed in Flames is a humor-packed collection of personal essays the likes only David Sedaris can deliver, complete with his struggle to put a stop to his trademark habit. Follow Sedaris as he relieves painful but pivotal moments of his rearing — his rural upbringing in the South with comedienne sibling Amy Sedaris always provides hilarious background to his stories — to defining moments that prove his neuroticism and compulsive tendencies are still very much intact (armoring his apartment windows with old LP covers to save himself from hellion songbirds and buying recreational drugs out of a trailer in the North Carolina backwoods).

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