Dear Mr. Sedaris,

My name is Robert Ventura and I am a senior at Schreiber high school. I have recently read your book Me Talk Pretty One Day for a class assignment. I usually don't like reading books that are non fiction, biographies being one of my most hated genres. Your book however was a great literary work. It was really funny and was written in an easy to read manner.

Like I said before I really enjoyed your book. Because of the way its written it’s hard for me to ask questions about it. I only have one question, have you yet to lean fluent French? This is left open at the end and it would be great to know if you actually did learn to talk pretty one day.

would like to thank you for taking time out of your day to read and possibly respond to this letter. I'm sure you have received many letters just like this but everything I have said is true.