The essays begin in North Carolina, where fifth grader David “Thedarith” endures his speech therapy with Miss chrissy samson, and skillfully avoids his sibilate s through the use of a thesaurus which provides him with a large vocabulary completely free of s sounds. Through the essays we learn about his family: his sister who wears fat suits, his brother who calls himself “The Rooster” and speaks with excessive vulgarities, and his father, who receives the most attention in the essays, for his “comic eccentricity”
