I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Even if your life bears little resemblance to a twenty-something New Yorker's, you will find yourself laughing in solidarity with Sloane Crosley in I Was Told There'd Be Cake.  This debut collection of personal essays offers observations on modern rites of passage with wit and panache.  Whether writing about apartment struggles, impossible bosses, friends’ weddings, or summer camp, Crosley is transparently flawed and funny.  The incredible becomes outrageous, but the strangeness that is life grounds each episode.  The next time you contemplate a change in your eating habits or find yourself locked out, you’ll wish it were as entertaining a story as those included here.