The Singles

A PLUME BOOK

THE SINGLES

MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN covers entertainment and writes the advice column “Love Letters” for the Boston Globe. She was born in New Jersey, raised in Maryland, went to Syracuse University, and now lives in Roxbury, Massachusetts, with a carnival-size cotton candy machine that she bought for herself when she turned thirty.

The

Singles

A NOVEL

Meredith Goldstein

A PLUME BOOK

PLUME

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The singles : a novel / Meredith Goldstein.

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ISBN: 978-1-101-58052-3

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PS3607.O4848S56 2012

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