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51/50, September 2010
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The Magical Adventures of a Single Life
Soft Skull Press
September 2010
On Sale: August 24, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 1593764138
EAN: 9781593764135
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Non-Fiction Memoir
After years of living the LA high life, Kristen McGuiness
found herself single, sober, and seriously questioning
whether she was destined to be alone. How hard could it be
to find a guy whose hand she could hold at the movie
theater, whose name she could put down as her emergency
contact at the doctor’s office, and who would know when to
tell her she’s beautiful? And more than that—where was that
euphoric full-body tingle spurred only by being in love? So she did what any single, newly sober thirty-year-old
would do: made a pact to go on 51 dates in 50 weeks. Giving
fate the middle finger, she decided that if the perfect guy
wasn’t going to walk into her life, she’d find him herself.
Using The Onion’s online personals, a sympathetic boss,
weekly meetings for recovering addicts, a magical spiritual
healer, and good old fashioned blind dates arranged by
friends, she embarks on a whirlwind carousel of men she
might not normally classify as potential mates. Her initial plan of landing a man by simply increasing the
odds quickly blossomed into more than just coffee with
strangers. The experiences became truth-seeking missions,
journeys into her problem-riddled past, and spiritual
adventures in fear and faith. Of course, she meets a lot of
men, but she also discovers unexpected moments of pain and
joy within her own family: her divorced mother, incarcerated
father, crazy Italian grandmother, and two middle-aged
uncles (one conservative, the other gay). And in the end,
her attempts to find love lead her to find herself. At times heart-breaking and laugh-out-loud hilarious,
Kristen McGuiness’s witty, brutally honest writing gives a
valuable true-life spin on Bridget Jones and Sex and the
City. 51/50 is a gripping read that will inspire others to
follow her courageous search for love.
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