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Alisha is Sedaris’s friend from North Carolina who visits him in New York City several times every year. An easy houseguest, Alisha is perfectly content to do whatever Sedaris wants. This pleases him because he hates going to tourist attractions—something he’s forced to do when Alisha decides to bring a woman named Bonnie with her on one of her visits. Alisha doesn’t know Bonnie very well but thinks she’s nice, though she eventually learns that this isn’t the case when Bonnie reveals her domineering side by forcing her and Sedaris to go to New York’s busiest tourist attractions.
Alisha Quotes in Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Me Talk Pretty One Day quotes below are all either spoken by Alisha or refer to Alisha. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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City of Angels Quotes
I was mortified, but Bonnie was in a state of almost narcotic bliss, overjoyed to have discovered a New York without the New Yorkers. Here were out-of-town visitors from Omaha and Chattanooga, outraged over the price of their hot roasted chestnuts. […] The crowd was relentlessly, pathologically friendly, and their enthusiasm was deafening. Looking around her, Bonnie saw a glittering paradise filled with decent, like-minded people, sent by God to give the world a howdy. Encircled by her army of angels, she drifted across the avenue to photograph a juggler, while I hobbled off toward home, a clear outsider in a city I’d foolishly thought to call my own.
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Alisha Character Timeline in Me Talk Pretty One Day
The timeline below shows where the character Alisha appears in Me Talk Pretty One Day. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
City of Angels
Sedaris has a friend named Alisha who visits him in New York City several times a year. To his mind, she’s...
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...to eat, Bonnie yells at the servers, accusing them of overcharging her. Later, she forces Alisha to take her to a Broadway play, and though Sedaris thinks this will satisfy her,...
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Sedaris walks Bonnie and Alisha to the Plaza Hotel for high tea, secretly loving the idea that Bonnie will be...
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After attending high tea, Bonnie forces Alisha and Sedaris to continue following her around to various other tourist attractions throughout New York...
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