Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections I Was Told There’d Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number, and Look Alive Out There, and the bestselling novel The Clasp. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Interview, The Village Voice, Vanity Fair – where she is a contributing editor – the Independent, Black Book, Departures, and The New York Observer. One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And another. Nothing is quite what it seems in a city awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What might pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger, and memories swirl and converge in ways both comic and eerie. Equal parts page-turner and poignant portrayal of alienation, Cult Classic: A Novel (MCD) asks: Is it possible to have a happy ending in an age when the past is ever at your fingertips, and sanity is for sale?
