Most Anticipated Romance by Buzzfeed Cheerfully irreverent bitingly funny and filled with
romantic charm Cara Tanamachi's The Second You're Single is all about navigating the most
romantic month of the year and how love always seems to arrive when you least expect it.
Freelance writer Sora Reid believes in inertia. She's the odd one out in a close-knit family of
go-getters including her Japanese-American mom who hints about her need to lose weight and
her soon-to-be married overachieving younger sister who needs her to have a date for the
wedding since a wedding party couples' dance with their Scottish great uncle Bob simply won't
do. For Sora minimal input minimal expectations is the way to go. She'd rather stay at home
with her insufferable neighbor and her adorable pitbull. 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 pin our hopes on one romantic day when staying home with a package of bacon and a
bottle of tequila would be way better? Sora's been betrayed and disappointed more than once and
her heart is starting to feel like her Grandma Mitsuye's antique Japanese ceramic bowl with
its many gold-filled cracks. When her pledge to stay single in February inspires readers to
#gosolo Sora has a responsibility to empower her readers. But relationships aren't built to
last so it shouldn't be that hard. Right? Enter Jack Mann. A muscle-bound baker who looks like
he lifts logs on the weekends Sora hasn't thought of Jack since they were in elementary school
together. When they see each other at the local grocery store and the attraction hits hard
Sora knows she has to shut it down quick. She can't #gosolo AND get the guy. She can't let
down her readers. And relationships always end so why should Jack be any different-even though
he's confounding all her long-held expectations of love? Riotous whip-smart and original.
Read this happy-making book if you love yourself. -Jayci Lee Author of Booked on a Feeling
