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“ … enlightening, intriguing, and surprisingly hilarious! I thought dating would get easier after my late twenties. Boy, was I wrong!
Folusa Falaye
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“ A compelling story full of heart, honesty, and vulnerability.
It will keep you turning the page, not something that's easy to do.
Reader Review, Toronto
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“… his first-person point of view reflects a smooth, passionate drive to share his
truth about a particular aspect of our lives that we try to fill… highly relatable … Read this feel-good story.
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“Memoirs like this are exceptionally hard to come by, ones that take a topic familiar to many and dive deeply into the personal impact of the topic
through a frank and open willingness to share by the author.
Turner Grant leaves nothing off the table...
K.C. Finn
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“ It's beautifully written, insightfully rich, and I found
myself not wanting the stories to end.
Reader Review, Nashville
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The award-winning memoir
The TURNER GRANT Story
Two years after the unexpected death of his wife, Turner Grant was ready to consider love once more. Yet everything had changed, and he soon found himself adrift in the digital-dating world.
At age fifty-one, Turner Grant became a widower and single parent to his twin boys. Deep in grief, he often found daily routines difficult and his work as an architect in Washington DC arduous. But after two years, Turner embarked on a journey to find his future, both in life and love.
What Turner discovered shocked him. After tentative steps into the shallow dating waters, he was quickly immersed in a deep ocean filled with unexpected riptides and crosscurrents within a digital-dating universe that didn’t exist when he last dated decades earlier.
In three years, he met fifty-four single, middle-aged women who took him to a totally different world—Venus. It was a journey—a journey that’s, well … complicated.
A CONVERSATION with Turner
Were you nervous about writing the book?
“OMG, yes! Nervous about failing the challenge I had given myself and sharing the most intimate and emotional parts of my life. This last one was really hard!”
You were very open and vulnerable in this book. Was that hard?
“Yes and no, but mostly yes. Giving life to my inner thoughts as characters with voices in the book helped enormously. It gave me a way to express various struggles I experienced during the times I write about, but it also allowed me to poke fun at myself during the writing.”
How does it feel to see your life story in print?
“Mostly scary, but with great satisfaction that I’ve come out of those times with my life intact and that I was able to articulate in words, for others to read, what that life was like.”
If you could go back and change your dating decisions, would you change anything?
“I forced too many situations when I shouldn’t have. My inner voices were right ninety percent of the time; however, I only listened to them twenty percent of the time.”
What advice would you give someone who found themselves re-entering the dating scene after a long time out of it?
“It’s easy to think that you’re ‘the problem’ when things don’t go the way you want or they go badly. You’re not the problem. Finding love is tricky business, but so is life in general.”
What advice do you have for people currently on Venus?
“Quoting from my book, ‘Love isn’t something you find; it’s something that finds you.’”