The Unexpected Joy of Being Single, Catherine Gray lighting award-winning New Yorker reporter and

award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past

In The Black Swan

America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love

They must go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened where the only rule is that there are no rules

They make plans to do it again when they turn thirty

The Unexpected Joy of Being Single, Catherine Gray lighting award-winning New Yorker reporter andSingle in your late twenties or, hold the phone, in your thirties or beyond? Oh hi! You're in the right place. Over a third of us are now single. With the single camp growing at ten times the rate of the actual population, it is now the norm to be single well into our thirties the average marriage age for women is 35 and 37 for men. But nobody seems to have told society, romcom makers, songwriters, marriage hungry mothers, 'tick tock' uncles, our