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.

Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs.

Meet “Carrie,” Carrie Bradshaw that is,  the quintessential young writer looking for Candace Bushnell love in all the wrong places… “Mr Big,” the business tycoon who drifts from one relationship to another… “Samantha Jones,” thSex and the City, e fortyish, successful, “testosterone woman” who uses sex like a man… not to mention “Psycho Moms, ” “Bicycle Boys,” “International Crazy Girls,” and the rest of the New Yorkers who inspired Sex and the City, one of the most watched TV series of our time. You’ve seen them on HBO, now listen to the book that started it all…