All at once there is nothing funny, but something all too sad and true, in this highly comic, highly affecting novel.
Over at the New York Times Sunday Book Review, author Julia Pierpont reviews Sloane Crosley’s first novel The Clasp, drawing comparisons to Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace.”
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