FREE: When You Are Engulfed In Flames, by David Sedaris

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If you've read anything by David Sedaris before, you know he can find the odd, the weird and the hysterically funny in the most ordinary everyday things. Take this little anecdote on page 196 about what can happen when you try to get rid of live-in mice, and that's all I will say about this book except it's hardcover with a dust jacket, and is entirely readable, but appears read and enjoyed in spots.

Here's the story from the book:

"Then there was the story mailed to me by a stranger in New England, who'd clipped it from his local paper. It concerned an 81-year-old Vermont man whose home was overrun by mice. The actual house was not described, but in my mind it was two stories tall and isolated on a country road. I also decided that it was painted white--not that it mattered so much, I just thought it was a nice touch. So the retired guy's house was overrun, and when he could no longer bear it, he fumigated. The mice fled into the yard and settled into a pile of dead leaves, which no doubt crackled beneath their weight. Thinking that he had them trapped, the man set the pile on fire,then watched as a single flaming mouse raced back into the basement and burned the house to the ground."

Why did I, Maryellen, like this story so much I wonder? Can you say Schadenfreude? I knew that you couldn't. Neither can I.