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I Was Told There'd Be Cake

I Was Told There'd Be Cake is a New York Times-bestselling[1] collection of essays by American writer
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
and literary publicist Sloane Crosley.
Author Sloane Crosley

Reception Country United States

Language English
Author Jonathan Lethem called Crosley "another mordant and mercurial wit from the realm of Sedaris and Genre Nonfiction
Vowell." David Sedaris himself called her writing "sure-footed, observant and relentlessly funny." Kirkus
Reviews called it "Witty and entertaining";[2] the Seattle Times said "this book about nothing is riveting to Publisher Riverhead Books
the very end";[3] The New York Observer described it as "a funny book, and also a wistful book and a Media type Print
touching book".[4] Elsewhere, the San Francisco Chronicle reviewer noted that while the book featured ISBN 9781436207126
"sharp, self-effacing humor", the book's style reveals the author as "too clever for her own good" and "not...
very, well, nice", though that by the book's end, "we forgive her deceptions".[5]

References
1. " 'Paperback Nonfiction' " (https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/books/bestseller/0427bestpapernonfiction.html). New York Times. April 27,
2008. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
2. "'I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley' " (http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781594483066-0). Powell's Books. Retrieved 4 April
2010.
3. Edwards, Haley (April 4, 2008). " '"I Was Told There'd Be Cake": Savvy, funny musings of a 20-something' " (http://seattletimes.nwsource.co
m/html/books/2004325432_cake04.html). Seattle Times. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
4. Dalva, Nancy (April 8, 2008). " 'Adorably Ageist Flack Vaults Generation Gap' " (https://web.archive.org/web/20080412203201/http://www.obs
erver.com/2008/adorably-ageist-flack-vaults-generation-gap). New York Observer. Archived from the original (https://www.observer.com/200
8/adorably-ageist-flack-vaults-generation-gap) on April 12, 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
5. Elson, Rachel (April 13, 2008). " 'Sloane Crosley: A funny, snippy New York girl' " (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/13/
RV4FVLIVB.DTL). San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 4 April 2010.

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