When American humorist David Sedaris' beach house was recently destroyed by a hurricane, his reaction was: "Oh good, I have an ending to my story."
Many of the essays in his latest book, Calypso (2018), are set in The Sea Section, a humorously named house he bought for his family on the North Carolina coast.
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