What happens when the minibus full of your fellow wedding travellers hits a bear in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness? Or you hear the voice of your high school's long-lost queen bee from a bathroom cubicle? For Sloane Crosley, these are the kind of transformative experiences that define our daily struggle to connect, however reluctantly, to our fellow man. From a lonely excursion to a Lisbon cafe to the sometimes disorienting experience of emerging from a New York subway, the essays in How Did You Get This Number take the reader on a series of journeys as Sloane Crosley's seeks a kind of instruction manual to navigate the difficult journeys of adulthood.
About Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley's work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Observer, The Village Voice, GQ, Playboy Magazine and numerous other literary journals and websites. In her free time, she serves as a publicist at Vintage Books. This is her second collection of essays.