PositiveUSA TodayIt has fewer laugh-out-loud moments, but feels more substantial and rewarding than some of his earlier efforts ... Sure, Sedaris’ wry voice enhances stories about his obsession with a Fitbit fitness-tracking device, fad diets, his short stature (I can relate) and the perks and pitfalls of frequent travel for his lucrative lecture tours ... But for the first time, he also addresses, poignantly, the 2013 suicide of his estranged sister Tiffany, the youngest of his five siblings ... Sedaris now reckons with [his mother\'s] alcoholism ... the author has described his own recollections as \'realish\' ... I don’t much care what liberties Sedaris takes. But much of his writing in Calypso, especially personal reflections on his family, feels true.
