Hilariously charming, Slone Crosley’s collection of personal essays in How Did You Get This Number are sure to remind readers to look back at their own awkward moments and laugh.

The sophomore effort to I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Crosley’s newest collection of essays in How Did You Get This Number describes the awkward confrontations, childhood memories, and unexpected incidents of her life. Full of stories from Paris to her parents living room, Crosley turns a dry story of, let’s say, the deaths of her multitude of childhood pets into a laugh out loud tidbit about how, even though she loved them, in the end, it was always her father doing the dirty work of burying her pets in duct tape-wrapped Tupperware containers.

Crosley, whether if writing about her living situation with an OCD/ kleptomaniac/ anorexic roommate, her trip to the wilds of Alaska for a friends wedding, or her college anthropology project on public bathroom behavior, not only makes her readers apart of the story, but makes us laugh with her along the way.

Each essay illustrates Crosley’s mishaps and adventures through her sharp and sarcastic humor as she takes her stories and turns them into metaphors for life though a simple symbol such as a Tiffany’s catalogue or a taxicab.  Though Crosley’s essays may describe childish situations, she give her readers an insight into the world of early-adulthood and make them see that it isn’t so bad to grow up, even if she fully hasn’t yet (she can’t tell her left from her right).

Not just a bunch of wacky tales, How Did You Get This Number proves with each story that people need to appreciate the insignificant things in life because they are, in actuality, delightful and humorous.