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”





《單身啪啪啪》作者為《他其實沒那麼喜歡你》的共同作者及《慾望城市》前編劇，這本小說講述了在愛的定義不斷演變的同時，一個女人如何探索世界。茱莉‧傑森住在紐約，是一名 37 歲的單身書籍宣傳。她的朋友喬治亞在丈夫因為一位森巴老師離開她後，強迫茱莉安排單身女孩之夜，提醒自己不再受到婚姻束縛有多棒；但是，那天晚上卻對茱莉產生了反效果。茱莉厭煩了單身所帶來的失衡與失望，因此毅然辭職，開始追尋世界各地的女性解決這種可怕現象的方法。她從巴黎到巴西，再到雪梨、峇里島、北京、孟買和雷克雅維克，經歷戀愛、失戀，看了世界，學到的比想像的還多。在這期間，她留在家鄉的朋友們正在處理他們自己的問題──糟糕的相親、沒有愛情的婚約、監護權爭奪戰、單親媽媽生活、摯愛的過世等。作者 Liz Tuccillo 用她一貫詼諧的風格寫出《單身啪啪啪》，「適合夏日閱讀，難能可貴地精準描繪出希望、恐懼，以及尋愛單身女性遇到的爛約會」。