num_pages: 221
description: Single Carefree Mellow is that rare and wonderful thing: a debut that is superbly accomplished endlessly entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny.Maya is in love with both her boyfriend and her boss. Sadies lover calls her as he drives to meet his wife at marriage counseling. Gwen pines for her roommate a man who will hold her hand but then tells her that her palm is sweaty. And Sasha agrees to have a drink with her married lovers wife and then immediately regrets it. These are the women of Single Carefree Mellow and in these eleven sublime stories they are grappling with unwelcome houseguests disastrous birthday parties needy but loyal friends and all manner of love secrets and betrayal. In Cranberry Relish Josies exa man she met on Facebookhas a new girlfriend he found on Twitter. In Blue Heron Bridge Nina is more worried that the Presbyterian minister living in her garage will hear her kids swearing than about his finding out that shes sleeping with her running partner. And in The Rhett Butlers a teenager loses her virginity to her history teacher and then outgrows him. In snappy glittering prose that is both utterly hilarious and achingly poignant Katherine Heiny chronicles the ways in which we are unfaithful to each other both willfully and unwittingly. Maya who appears in the title story and again in various states of love forms the spine of this linked collection and shows us through her moments of pleasure loss deceit and kindness just how fickle the human heart can be.
language: English
title: Single, Carefree, Mellow
publisher: Knopf