Synopses & Reviews
Julie Jenson is a 37-year-old book publicist in New York. And she's single. And has been for six years. It wasn't that she loved fielding the dreaded question, "So, why
are you single?" she'd simply made a pretty nice life out of her routine: early nights, breakfast smoothies and morning runs. But when her friend Georgia's husband leaves Georgia for a
whore gutter trash samba teacher, Julie gathers her closest single friends for one momentous night of New York singlehood.
Along for the ride are:
Alice: A former legal aid attorney who, after a five-year failed relationship, quits her job to start dating for living.
Serena: A beautiful woman who between the new-age workshops and African dance class, is so busy becoming a fully-realized person, doesn't find time to date.
Ruby: So bad at handling disappointment she's still in bed mourning the death of her cat, let alone putting herself out there.
Besides their mutual lack of any type of significant other, these women have nothing in common. So on a night that started with steaks and martinis and ended with topless bar-dancing and a trip to the hospital, Julie gets fed up with New York's illustrious singles scene once and for all. Between the five of them--all beautiful, smart and successful--there's more dysfunction and disappointment than she can handle. So, she quits her job and sets off to find how women around the world deal with the dreaded phenomenom of The Single Life. From Paris to Israel, to Iceland and back to New York, Julie finds out how to make her crazy life work. Tuccillo's pitch-perfect, hilarious and relatable voice make How to be Single is the ultimate novel for the single girl in us all.
Review
"A fun read that reminds single girls everywhere that it's fabulous to be single."-- Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes
Synopsis
This debut novel by "Sex and the City" writer and coauthor of "He's Just Not That Into You" is a humorous account of one woman's adventures traveling the globe to learn how women around the world deal with being single. Abridged. 5 CDs.
Synopsis
It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you:Why are you single?
On a brisk October morning in New York, Julie Jenson, a single thirty-eight-year-old book publicist, gets a hysterical phone call from her friend Georgia. Reeling from her husband's announcement that he is leaving her for a samba teacher, Georgia convinces a reluctant Julie to organize a fun girls' night out with all of their single friends to remind her why it is so much fun not to be tied down.
But the night becomes a wake-up call for Julie because none of her friends seem to be having much fun: Alice, a former legal aid attorney has recently quit her job to start dating for a living; Serena, who is so busy becoming a fully realized person that she can't find time to look for a mate; and Ruby, a curvy and compassionate woman, has been mourning the death of her cat for months.
Fed up being single in Manhattan, Julie sets off to find out how women around the world deal with this dreaded phenomenon. From Paris to Rio to Sydney, Bali, Beijing, Mumbai, and Reykjavik, Julie falls in love, gets her heart broken, sees the world, and learns more than she ever dreamed possible. Written in Liz Tuccillo's pitch-perfect, hilarious, and relatable voice, How to Be Single is the ultimate novel for the adventurer in us all.
About the Author
Liz Tuccillo was an executive story editor of HBO's Emmy-winning Sex and the City and has also written for Off Broadway. She is currently living and dating in New York City.