Free (Kindle) 51/50: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life [Comedic Memoir]

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51/50: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life by Kristen McGuinness, is one of those apparently humorously poignant "set myself a personal challenge and see how it turns out" slice-of-life memoirs, free courtesy of publisher Soft Skull Press.

Free @ Amazon (available to Canadians). May show up elsewhere, but the publisher is a first time freebier, IIRC, so your guess is as good as mine.

Description
51 dates. 50 weeks. That was the social experiment Kristen McGuiness—single, living in LA, and entering her thirties newly sober—embarked upon. McGuiness thought facing her struggle with alcoholism would be the hardest part, with love coming easily afterwards. It didn’t. Rethinking her previous dating strategy, she embarks on the ultimate social experiment: 51 dates over the course of 50 weeks, and a chance to claim the life she thought was supposed to be hers.

Dodging CHAs (Cheesy Hollywood Actors) and men with self-diagnosed RAD (Relationship Anxiety Disorder), McGuiness is determined to find the "perfect guy" by being the "perfect girl." But McGuiness, like all of us, has her own issues to contend with: a longing for the wrong kind of men, a penchant for swearing, and a difficult relationship with her father in maximum-security prison. But as the year progresses, McGuiness begins to develop a new hope for her future—the dates transform into truth-seeking missions, and point her toward a life with satisfying work, a supportive family and, with the help of a local shaman, a comforting spirituality. Told with wry humor, pathos, and an engaging lack of self-pity, 51/50 is a moving adventure.