How Did You Get This Number

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.