Take the Cannoli Stories from the New World

Why did Sinatra have those little-town blues? How does worrying about the end of the world help you make friends? Are the Godfather movies really a reliable guide to living well? Find out in Sarah Vowell's charming, sharply observed autobiographical stories. They range right across the wide and wild span of American life, and whether she's daytripping through Disneyland or discovering the joys of mix-tapes, masquerading as a Goth or delighting in the famously sleazy history of the Chelsea Hotel (and its hairy bathrooms), this great new comic commentator on the home of the brave and the land of the free is smart, likeable and very, very funny.