Dhaval’s an interesting type. Not content to run with the pack, Mehta chose a (lone) wolf for his avatar. Fitting, given the ‘non-compliance’ theme. None of this should detract from his submission. Beach Vacation challenges us to break the rules, placing freedom over conformity. Check out the author’s interview below. Tell us about a book you have read recently, and why you enjoyed it. I just finished reading David Sedaris’s “Old Faithful” in The Best American Essays 2005 (edited by the very gifted Susan Orlean). After reading “Old Faithful”—after reading anything simply touched by Sedaris—I ask the cruel forces of the world to throw me headlong into a terribly awkward but painfully funny circumstance, just so I can write about it. Then I remember I don’t have Sedaris’s wild …