When Sherry Halperin lost her husband at age fifty-one, she wondered if she could ever date again, much less find love. But on her first date a year later, she felt surprisingly invigorated – and sexy – which led to a dating marathon that she recounts with witty banter and self-effacing humor.

Rescue Me, He’s Wearing a Moose Hat hits a nerve by shelling out the real deal on what being single again means. Halperin cuts straight to the chase, discounting men she knows won’t pan out and sharing her anguish when she bumps up against unrequited love. She tackles her inexhaustible dating options with an energy that rivals any twenty-year-old, and learns what it means to rediscover her single self.