Nobody Eats Parsley: And other things I learned from my family is the long-awaited follow up to David’s debut book, Why is My Name Upside Down? and it ushers us front and center to the inner circus of his family life. These are stories so ridiculous you might think they’re fiction. They’re not. Each chapter is filled with hilarious true events from David’s world and there’s a nice life lesson ‘take-away’ from each.

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If you like ‘the other’ David (as in Sedaris) then you’re going to LOVE the comic, nuanced writing of David Oakley. Nobody Eats Parsley is non-put-downable, non-stop fun from cover to cover.

“Great stories. You made me smile.”

— Seth Godin, International best-selling author of Purple Cow 

“So you can’t choose your family. But you can write a book about them and destroy the parsley industry in the process. I wouldn’t last a week in David Oakley’s wacky family,  but I would pay money to attend their reunion! I so appreciate David’s wicked humor, brilliant story-telling, and true love of family. Even if he doesn’t know that parsley is a garnish.”

— Tracy Lee Curtis, Humorist & Author of Trophy Mom 

“David has figured out the secret to life: he’s learned to laugh at himself. We would all be richer if we learned how to do the same.”

— Kristen Cavallo, CEO of The Martin Agency