How to Be Single
A Novel
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4.0 • 52 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The inspiration for the hit film!
From the coauthor of He’s Just Not That Into You and a former story editor for Sex and the City, How to Be Single is about one woman’s attempts to navigate a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.
Julie Jenson is a single thirty-seven-year-old book publicist in New York. When her friend Georgia’s husband leaves her for a samba teacher, she forces Julie to organize a single girls’ night out to remind her why it’s so much fun not to be tied down. But the night ends up having the opposite effect on Julie. Fed up with the dysfunction and disappointments of singledom, Julie quits her job and sets off to find out how women around the world are dealing with this dreaded phenomenon.
From Paris to Brazil to Sydney, Bali, Beijing, Mumbai, and Reyjavik, Julie falls in love, gets her heart broken, sees the world, and learns more than she ever dreamed possible. All the while her friends at home are grappling with their own issues—bad blind dates, loveless engagements, custody battles, single motherhood, and the death of a loved one. Written in Liz Tuccillo’s pitch-perfect, hilarious, and relatable voice, How to Be Single is “a summer read that, for once, accurately depicts the hopes, fears, and bad dates of a single woman looking for love” (Parade).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Julie, a 38-year-old New Yorker, has a lot of beautiful, accomplished single female friends—and she wants to know why. So she takes off on a globe-trotting quest for answers: What do single women in Rio, Bali, and Paris have to say about love, sex, and all those men they’re not married to? Former Sex and the City writer Liz Tuccillo—the author of the tough-love dating guide He’s Just Not That into You—has written a fast-paced and very funny exploration of modern dating habits and an ode to the friendships that keep us (mostly) sane.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The sassy coauthor of He's Just Not That into You and former executive story editor for Sex and the City stays on familiar ground for her energetic fiction debut. It follows the dating lives of five single New York women, one of whom, narrator Julie, is writing a book about how bachelorettes across the world manage. A Yahoo-sponsored trip sent Tuccillo traveling the world interviewing women in preparation for her novel; Julie embarks on a similar journey while her four friends duke it out on the New York dating scene. The subsequent stories of courtship, marriage and romantic expectations from Julie's travels are revealing and compelling, but the narrator's interviews quickly give way to her own international affair. The friends back home engage in familiar behavior: the postdivorce fling, the forbidden workplace romance, the comfortable but boring relationship and the quirky pet as substitute-boyfriend. The women's plucky points-of-view are nicely intermingled, with Julie as the woman who ties them all together in Carrie-like fashion. Occasional shifts to issues like poverty in India, however, work against the book's strengths.
Customer Reviews
Interesting/depressing
The book was definitely entertaining. You have 4 stories of 4 different women who are somehow connected through 1 mutual friend. All single.
What was depressing were the turn of events throughout the book. Their journey to finding love was such a fail and I myself just got out of a relationship... it made me feel slightly hopeless lol.
Things aren't always going to turn out as you expect them to. And the whole moral of the story...: LOVE YOURSELF LADIES!
Recovery
This is the book you want to turn to after a heart-wrenching break up. It is a sensual, emotional, and heart warming book that reminds you that although there is no guarantee your relationship will sustain, there is no time limit to your best friends. They will help bring you back on your feet again even though they are suffering with their own male problems.
Love this book!
One of my all time fave easy reads.