The author of of "I Was Told There'd Be Cake" takes readers from a bear-infested wedding in Alaska to a run-in with clowns in Portugal in this "New York Times"-bestselling collection of essays about the messiest and most unexpected dilemmas life has to offer.

The author of of "I Was Told There'd Be Cake" takes readers from a bear-infested wedding in Alaska to a run-in with clowns in Portugal in this "New York Times"-bestselling collection of essays about the messiest and most unexpected dilemmas life has to offer.

The hilarious New York Times bestselling literary essay collection from Sloane Crosley, the author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake and The Clasp .

Sloane Crosley, the brilliantly funny fountain of observations (Boston Globe), now takes readers from a bear-infested wedding in Alaska to a run-in with clowns in Portugal in a new collection of essays about the messiest and most unexpected dilemmas life has to offer. How sure-footed and observant Sloane Crosley is. How perfectly, relentlessly funny. -- David Sedaris