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"Her smart memoir celebrates women who forge their own paths, ignoring the cultural scripts they’ve been handed." - New York Times ' Paperback Row' Pick
"A rare and necessary perspective on the profound exhilaration of the untethered female life." - New York Magazine "I found myself underlining sentences, and then entire passages, that resonated with me, articulating the extreme inadequacy and sense of dislocation single women of a certain age." -- Amanda Stern, New York Times "That she lets us in on this journey is a gift.” - Buzzfeed "A perfect balance between edgy and poignant." - People "Her honest and funny stories about love, sex, grief and friendship help shape an image of contemporary womanhood that is both demanding and gratifying." - TIME "MacNicol’s memoir is not a rah-rah-I-don’t-need-a-man-so-f***-you type of book. Instead, it’s something better ― it’s honest." - Huffington Post "Engaging and honest...MacNicol is relatable, and the joy she finds in her life, lived on her own terms, is striking." - Booklist "Amid the raft of motherhood memoirs out this summer, it’s refreshing to read a book unapologetically dedicated to the fulfillment of single life" - Vogue "Will resonate with countless women and men" - Publishers Weekly "Unapologetic...MacNicol offers a refreshing view of the possibilities--and pitfalls--personal freedom can offer modern women. A funny, frank, and fearless memoir." - Kirkus "Smart and hilarious and exactly as nuanced as you want it to be." - GOOP |
"A piercing examination" - Rebecca Traister 
*Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by ESQUIRE, FINANCIAL TIMES, and the CBC * TIME Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far * ELLE 30 Best Books to Read This Summer * BUZZFEED 30 Summer Books To Get Excited About * VOGUE 13 Books to Thrill, Entertain, and Sustain |
Glynnis MacNicol generously imparts the kind of wisdom we are usually so loathe and suspicious to receive. She doesn't proselytize, she doesn't pander, she doesn't beat you over the head with inspirational buzzwords. She simply tells the truth about her life. In my 20s, I was too dumb and terrified to articulate my desires. In my 30s, my fear is that society won't let me become the woman I want to be. This is the blueprint.
—Aminatou Sow, co-host Call Your Girlfriend
"No One Tells You This takes readers from Canada to New York to Wyoming in its mapping of contemporary adulthood, unmoored from the institutions that once defined it for women. Wrestling with loneliness, independence, grief and exhilaration, MacNicol offers a piercing examination of what it means both to love grown-up, complicated women—mothers, sisters, friends, intergalactic princesses—and to be one.”
—Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
“Glynnis has written a book that is honest, hilarious and raw—it misses nothing. Her voice literally jumps off the page and becomes your friend, sister, caretaker, asskicker.”
—Alyssa Mastromonaco, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea
“No One Tells You This is the story of a woman living by her own rules—alone—and having the audacity to enjoy it. Glynnis lays bare the complexity of being a woman on her own in the world, in all its heartbreak, humor and, yes, joy.”
—Jessica Bennett, Feminist Fight Club
"Revealing as a three-martini lunch with a smart friend, this candid memoir shows a woman choosing to live happily (if also conflictedly) ever after on her own."
— Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give