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A strong, original, moving booklet that will encourage fanatical devotion and ignite argument. "Whom to marry, so when does it happen - both of these questions explain every woman's life." So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite go through the pleasures and likelihood of remaining solitary. Using her own experiences as a starting place, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving mutually days gone by and present to analyze why she - along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing - remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic switch, Bolick talks about, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor liked. Spinster presents a solid of pioneering women from the previous hundred years whose genius, tenacity, and flair for theatre have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her behalf own conditions: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, sociable visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having everything, are timeless - the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried out for years and years to forge a good life. Intellectually considerable and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live a life authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives - an opportunity to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to your own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.
