I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays

I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays

From the author of the novel, The Clasp, hailed by Michael Chabon, Heidi Julavits, and J. Courtney Sullivan. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays from Sloan…

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