I WAS TOLD THERE'D BE CAKE - Sloane Crosley

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I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays 

A Thurber Prize nominated collection of literary essays and the debut work of a strikingly original voice, I Was Told There'd Be Cake chronicles the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.

Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, I Was Told There'd Be Cake is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.

“Sloane Crosley is another mordant and mercurial wit from the realm of Sedaris and Vowell.  What makes her so funny is that she seems to be telling the truth, helplessly.” -- Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Gun, With Occasional Music