![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet a book on singleness has never been more relevant, according to Spinster’s statistics: in 2013, more than 105 million people over the age of eighteen were never married, divorced, or widowed - and 53 percent of that population were women. Kate Bolick’s memoir, Spinster, is an answer to her own question: how can a woman make a life of her own in 2015, when - as Bolick claims - our paths are still charted by the question of, “Whom to marry, and when it will happen?” As a successful freelance writer, contributor to The Atlantic, and former executive editor of Domino magazine, Bolick sets herself up as the example of how to live a solitary life - especially impressive, perhaps, because most of that living occurs in the mightily expensive New York City. “What if a girl grew up like a boy, with marriage an abstract, someday thought, a thing to think about when she became an adult, a thing she could do, or not do, depending?” Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]()
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