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Title details for The Second You're Single by Cara Tanamachi - Available

The Second You're Single

by Cara Tanamachi
Michael Braun
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Freelance writer Sora Reid believes in inertia. She's the odd one out in a family of go-getters, including her Japanese American mom, who hints about losing weight, and her almost-married sister, who needs Sora to get a date for the wedding, otherwise she'll be dancing with her Scottish great-uncle Bob. For
Sora, the phrase "minimal input, minimal expectations" is a way of life.
The one thing that disrupts her inertia: an intense dislike for Valentine's Day.
What is it with the commercial love machine? Why do we get our hopes up, when staying home with a package of bacon and a bottle of tequila is better? Sora's been betrayed before, and her heart feels like Grandma Mitsuye's antique Japanese ceramic bowl with its gold-filled cracks.
When her pledge to stay single inspires readers to #GoSolo, Sora wants to empower her followers. It shouldn't be that hard, right?
Enter Jack Mann, a muscle-bound baker Sora hasn't thought of since elementary school. When a run-in at the grocery store leads to instant attraction, Sora knows she has to shut it down. She can't #GoSolo and get the guy. She can't let down her readers. And relationships always end, so why should
Jack be different—even though he's confounding her expectations of love?
Cheerfully irreverent, bitingly funny, and filled with romantic charm, The Second You're Single is about navigating the most romantic month of the year, and how love always comes when you least expect it.

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  • Release date

    January 31, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781705083451
      • File size: 245104 KB
      • Duration: 08:30:37

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 12, 2022
      Humorous observations on flab, friendship, and freedom animate this lukewarm rom-com from Cara Lockwood (Masquerade), writing as Tanamachi. Freelance writer Sora Reid, 32, has just broken up with her married boyfriend. With Valentine’s Day looming, and despite pressure from her overbearing family, she decides to embrace her singlehood and pitches her editor a story about her Solo February challenge. Sora’s empowering insights on nixing the month of love evaporate when she falls for the hunk giving out samples at the grocery store. Though Sora doesn’t recognize him, gentle Jack Mann has crushed on her since elementary school, and he’s thrilled when she reenters his life. But what will happen if Sora breaks her now viral #GoSolo vow? Even more trouble arises when Mal, the ex-fiancée who drove Jack from his pastry chef job at a Michelin-starred restaurant, starts scheming to get him back. Sora’s biting, ironic commentary on her love life rings true, but the same voice applied critically to her relationship with food and her own weight occasionally grates. Despite some overwriting, Sora’s complex relationships with her family, her followers, and herself provide plenty of food for thought.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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