{"product_id":"going-solo-isbn-9780143122777","title":"Going Solo","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKlinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even evidence that people who live alone enjoy better mental health and have more environmentally sustainable lifestyles. Drawing on more than three hundred in-depth interviews, Klinenberg presents a revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom and offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A book so important that it is likely to become both a popular read and a social science classic. . . . This book really will change the lives of people who live solo, and everyone else . . . thorough, balanced, and persuasive.” — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fascinating and admirably temperate . . . [Going Solo] does a good job of explaining the social forces behind the trend and exploring the psychology of those who participate in it.” — \u003cb\u003eDaniel Akst, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Klinenberg convincingly argues that the convergence of mass  urbanization, communications technology, and liberalized attitudes has  driven this trend.” — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGoing Solo\u003c\/i\u003e examines a dramatic demographic trend: the startling  increase in adults living alone. Along the way, the book navigates some  rough and complicated emotional terrain, finding its way straight to  questions of the heart, to the universal yearning for happiness and  purpose. In the end, despite its title, \u003ci\u003eGoing Solo \u003c\/i\u003eis really about living better together—for all of us, single or not.” — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thought-provoking . . . Mr. Klinenberg argues that singletons comprise a kind of shadow population that’s misunderstood by policymakers and our culture writ large. \u003ci\u003eGoing Solo\u003c\/i\u003e is an attempt to fill in the blanks—    to explain the causes and consequences of living alone, and to describe what it looks in everyday life. . . . Klinenberg renders [these] stories vividly but also with nuance.” — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Today, as Eric Klinenberg reminds us in his book, \u003ci\u003eGoing Solo\u003c\/i\u003e, more than 50 percent of adults are single . . . [he] nicely shoes that people who live alone are more likely to visit friends and join social groups. They are more likely to congregate in and create active, dynamic cities.\" — \u003cb\u003eDavid Brooks, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Klinenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of sociology at New York University and the editor of the journal \u003ci\u003ePublic Culture\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeat Wave\u003c\/i\u003e, which won several scholarly and literary prizes and was declared a \"Favorite Book\" by the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed\u003c\/i\u003e. His research has been heralded in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and on CNN and NPR, and his stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and on \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305258471653,"sku":"NP9780143122777","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143122777.jpg?v=1767728282","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/going-solo-isbn-9780143122777","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}