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Memoirs

NEVER HAVE I EVER

Katie Heaney

My Life (So Far) Without a Date

A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman’s (totally unsuccessful) search for love.

Beginning with her Kindergarten crush and continuing through college and graduate school heartbreak, this witty memoir traces Katie’s life-long search for love in funny, quirky and unflinchingly honest stories that will make you look back and cringe at your own embarrassing life moments. Along the way, you will meet Katie’s incredibly loyal group of girlfriends, and you will get to know Katie herself—a smart, modern heroine in the vein of Mindy Kaling and Sloane Crosley, expressing truths on everything from the subtleties of a Facebook message exchange to the fact that “Everybody who works in a coffee shop is at least a little bit hot.” Katie Heaney is a 25-year-old writer living in Minneapolis. She earned a BA in political science from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2009 and a master's degree in public policy from the University of Minnesota in May 2012. She has written for BuzzFeed, New York Magazine, The Hairpin, The Awl, Glamour.com, and The Rumpus, among other publications.

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Book Published 2014-01-01 by Grand Central

Comments

I challenge any reader to not feel like one of Katie Heaney's closest girlfriends as she examines, in the most charming, honest, original and amusing way imaginable, how she's managed to never have a date. But don't let the breezy language or topic fool you-this is also a brilliant examination of what it means to be a friend, a girl and a human being. The first guy to take Heaney out will be very lucky; in the meantime, we her readers are the lucky ones.

Reading Never Have I Ever is a bit like reliving your most awkward moments -- but in the best way, because this time, the cringeworthy moments are happening to someone else. Anyone who's ever swooned over a boy whose name she didn't even know or overanalyzed a text message from a crush will see herself in Katie Heaney. You'll relate to her frustrations and admire her confidence, and probably wish she was your best friend.

Katie Heaney is so hilariously fun to read that you may not notice right away how insightful she is about friendship, romance, and the essential weirdness of human relationships.