Kezia is the right-hand employee of an esoteric jewelry designer who recently gave her several not-so-gentle love taps with a dogwood branch inside an elevator. He seems to have never recovered from this blow, unable to feel energized about much of anything (sulking around his apartment, “He masturbated, but not like he meant it”). There’s Victor, who was recently fired for being the weakest link at a flailing Internet search engine company - in college he confessed his love for his classmate Kezia, and she rejected him. Their defeats and disappointments are further magnified by absurdist contexts within their lives. In the decade or so since graduating, each has been circling the drain in both love and career. The book centers on three protagonists who became friends in college. In her debut novel, “The Clasp,” Crosley’s talent for extracting hilarity from disappointment crosses over into fiction and thrives there. Sloane Crosley’s best-selling essay collections (“I Was Told There’d Be Cake” and “How Did You Get This Number”) showcase her keen intelligence for comedic writing - Crosley’s is a humor that can lasso the lowbrow and pull it in into definitively literary territory, managing to fuse the embarrassing and the poignant.
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