Earlier Books
“Subcultures that inspire rabid devotion—from Barbie collecting to ice fishing—are examined with wit and compassion.” —Entertainment Weekly
"Who Are You People is fun, funny, and fearless…"
—Dinty W. Moore, author of The Accidental Buddhist
"Caudron slips inside her subjects' lives and writes about all with grace, insight, and almost limitless empathy."
—Thomas French, Pulitzer prize-winning author of South of Heaven
Who Are You People?
A Personal Journey into the Heart of Fanatical Passion in America
You know those people who get passionately, fanatically, obsessively into things? People like doll collectors or Star Wars fans or that lady down the street with gnomes all over her yard? Award-winning journalist Shari Caudron noticed them too and she was, well, jealous. Not having such a passion herself, she wondered: who are you people?
Seeking an answer, she set out on a cross-country journey to learn what passionate fanatics had that she didn’t. Could she tap her own wellspring of enthusiasm by studying the enthusiasms of others?
Winner of the Colorado Book Award
What Really Happened
Unexpected Insight from Life’s Uncomfortable Moments
Guilt, envy, procrastination—and why a fully grown woman should not be forced to sleep with fifty other adults in a hostel with communal showers—are just some of the topics in this debut essay collection.
With gentle insight and self-deprecating humor, Caudron helps us understand that every experience – no matter how difficult or embarrassing – can show us something about ourselves.
Humor finalist, INDIES Book of the Year awards.
Currently out of print.