The Curse of the Singles Table

Suzanne Schlosberg's friends dubbed her the Cal Ripken of celibacy. Given the common belief among single women that all the good men are either married or gay, Suzanne's predicament is hardly extraordinary, but what she does to end the streak makes for a hilarious tale. Suzanne hits bottom when her younger sister gets engaged, leaving her less than a year to find a date for the wedding. She shifts into overdrive, experimenting with Internet dating, speed dating, and other bizarre 21st century match-making rituals. But after enduring every indignity of singlehood, she ultimately learns to ask herself: Does she really need a man to find happiness?

First sentence: I could tell you that I came to the most remote corner of Arctic Russia because of an interest in life on the tundra in the post-Soviet era.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Editions

10

Pages

272

ISBN

9780446690546

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