Single, Not Alone is what happens when a woman leaves a twelve-year marriage and refuses the script she's handed for what comes next. Not the tidy recovery narrative. Not the second-husband ending. The honest account of a woman who discovers what single really is. Single is not alone. It's a configuration of a life. For the next seven years, she practiced paying attention. To her own current. To the forty-eight White Mountain peaks she climbed one at a time. To the pages she began to write. And to the love that arrived: the women who did not leave, the man who reminded her what being chosen feels like, and the one who showed her with his hands that the body and the heart live in the same room.
The woman who began this story stood at a mirror in Ireland fixing her lipstick for a dinner, in a marriage she was already leaving. The woman who finished it writes from a kitchen in Pennsylvania, in a version of her life no one, not even she, saw coming.
For readers of Vivian Gornick's The Odd Woman and the City, Rachel Cusk's Aftermath, and Maggie O'Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am, this memoir will feel like finding the book that comes after.
