How to Cry on Your Bicycle

Longtime columnist Jennaye Derge navigates life like a steep technical descent strewn with ridiculously inconvenient rocks. Only, the rocks are exercising and grocery shopping. A series of jobs slinging coffee and newspapers. Dates in a world of bros. And, well, being a woman in a time that makes that challenging enough all on its own. But through it all, she has her bicycle: her baby, her outlet, her teacher. These (mostly) funny and (always) heartfelt short essays show us how one woman learns