| With Thanksgiving behind us, the holiday shopping season has officially arrived. For those who enjoy the hunt, searching for gifts arouses the senses and slakes all kinds of appetites—much like the festive meals of the weeks ahead. For the humorist and longtime New Yorker contributor David Sedaris, a family trip to Tokyo provided an occasion to scour and splurge, including at multiple locations of a favorite boutique. “Our fingerprints,” he recounts, “were on everything.” Between punchlines, Sedaris subtly suggests that shopping reveals new layers of character and comportment. He catalogues various shopping personalities—the encourager, the enabler—and pokes fun at different attitudes about expressing love through presents. “I would never leave town and not bring Hugh back a gift,” he writes about his partner. “Nor would he do that to me, though in truth I had to train him.” | 
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