Spinster
Kate Bolick
Crown/Archetype
An electric and bracingly original story that expands our understanding of what it means to choose a life alone.<br><br>"Whom to marry, and when will it happen--these two questions define every woman's existence, regardless of where she was raised or what religion she does or doesn't practice." So begins <i>Spinster</i>, a revelatory, lyrical, and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why­ she--along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing--remains unmarried, yet still cannot outrun those two pesky questions.<br><br>This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. <i>Spinster</i> introduces a...