About this Event
Rakestraw Books is wildly excited to invite you to join us for a special evening with bestselling author David Sedaris as we celebrate the publication of his new book, The Land and Its People. This event will take place here at the shop on Wednesday, 10 June 2026 at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $33. Each ticket admits one person and includes a signed copy of The Land and Its People. We will have additional books for sale that evening.
Tickets will go on sale on Monday, 20 April 2026 at 9 AM (Pacific) here on Eventbrite. We know that tickets will sell out very quickly, so please make your plans early. There are a number of special requests from the author that we have posted below, so please read those carefully. The most important to remember is that there can be no photos or videos whatsoever at the event.
We hope you can join us for this wonderful evening. All of us at the shop have been Sedaris fans for years and years -- and we know many of you are too! It is such a marvelous treat to be able to welcome him to Rakestraw Books at last.
More about The Land and Its People:
In The Land and Its People, his first new collection since Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend. He tries on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery, and both succeeds and fails. He buys his sister a cape and discusses his brother with a jaded Duolingo bot. He walks dozens of miles with his friend Dawn and challenges her to eat a truck tire. Ever adding to his list of “Countries I Have Been To,” he rides a horse named Tequila in Guatemala, buys a bespoke priest’s cassock in Vatican City, and goes on safari in Kenya without taking a single photo.
There is sadness here—scrolling through his address book, he realizes how many dear friends are now deceased—but also delight: he revels in authors’ biographies, the malapropism that becomes a decades-long inside joke, and pair of well-made cotton underpants. He is bitten by a dog. A train passenger vomits in his face. A woman on the street late at night either sexually harasses him or doesn’t. Look how hard it is to be alive!
Throughout these essays—at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound—Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity this fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.
More about David Sedaris:
David Sedaris is one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers.
Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers , , , , , , , and . The audio version of , written and narrated by Sedaris, won the 2023 Audie Award. His book , collects 42 previously published stories and essays. Sedaris also wrote , a collection of fables with illustrations by Ian Falconer. His next book of essays will be (Back Bay Books, May 26, 2026).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rakestraw Books, 3 Railroad Avenue, Danville, United States
USD 35.64
