The release date for the English version of 'I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays' by
Sloane Crosley is Apr 2008. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
From the author of the book The Clasp, praised by J. Courtney Sullivan, Heidi Julavits, and Michael Chabon. Sloane Crosley's first book of literary essays is a wry, humorous, and very real celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their splendor.
Even with the greatest of intentions—or maybe even because of them—Crosley can never do anything right, from trashing a Natural History Museum display to inciting the wrath of her first job to calling the police on her enigmatic neighbor. Together, these pieces provide a strikingly humorous and intimate picture of a multifaceted and absolutely identifiable individual who strives for the stars but falls short, as well as the unique metropolis that has influenced her greatly. A very unique voice is introduced in I Was Told There'd Be Cake, which documents the hardships and unanticipated beauties of contemporary urban existence.
The ursula cookie, Christmas in July, the pony dilemma, and more
Bring your machete to work day -- Fuck you, Columbus -- One-night bounce -- The wonderful people of this dimension -- Bastard out of Westchester -- The beauty of strangers --
You on a stick: The pinnacle of opulence
Feel this scent
Lay like a broccoli stalker—Fake fever