Cynthia Kaplan

Kaplan was recommended to me as the female David Sedaris, and this was not a particularly apt description. Her sense of humor is very bland and her sense of the ridiculous lacks. However, there was a touching sense of familial love in some of her chapters, especially when she discusses having to institutionalize her grandmother. But in her hands, these are the stories my girlfriends and I tell without any of the sense of surreality or humor one comes to expect from a Sedaris or even an Augustin Burroughs book.… (plus d'informations)