In Naked David Sedaris s message alternately rendered in Fakespeare Italian Spanish and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me. Whether he s taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.