Nicknames: Tales from the Shallow End of the Manhattan Dating Pool

There are a million bad dates in the city that never sleeps. Mary Geneva has been on 999,999 of them.

When she moved to Manhattan in her mid-20s, Mary imagined being single in glamorous New York City would be like something out of a Hollywood movie. And it was--like a horror movie. Nicknames is a look at some of the most hopeless, horrendous, and frequently hilarious dates you can imagine. Mary shares her true-life adventures as a single gal looking for Mr. Right in the treacherous waters of the New York dating scene. You'll meet men so bizarre, their names have been changed to protect the guilty--hence the title: Nicknames.

Our cast of characters includes:
• Crazy Eyes, who didn't just resemble an escapee from the local mental hospital, but proved he probably belonged there
• James Bond, the mysterious South African with the secret life
• Germ Sperm, a guy so classy, he actually named himself Germ Sperm!
• And many, many, many more.

Part memoir, part self-help book, Nicknames will have you laughing out loud...and possibly abstaining from dating forever.