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The Year of Yes: A Memoir

by Maria Dahvana Headley

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A funny, poignant memoir recounting a year of saying yes.

Like many young people everywhere, playwright Maria Headley had had her fill of terrible dates. Discouraged and looking for love, she decided the time had come for her to eliminate her own (clearly not adequately discriminating) taste from the equation. Instead — as she vowed to her roommates one frustrated morning — she would date every person who asked her out for an entire year, regardless of circumstances. It would be her Year of Yes.

Leaving her judgment and predispositions at the door, our heroine ventured into a world suddenly brimming with opportunity and found herself saying yes to:

  • The Microsoft Millionaire who still lived with his mom.
  • An actor she had previously sworn off as gay.
  • And finally the significantly older man, divorced with kids, who she never would have looked at twice before the Year of Yes — and to whom she is now happily married.
Hilariously funny and ultimately inspirational, The Year of Yes will appeal to every person who has turned down a date for the wrong reason.

Review:

"When Idaho-born Headley, a 20-year-old NYU drama student, laments, 'I felt like I'd dated and then hated every man in Manhattan,' she thinks perhaps she's too critical. So she 'decided that I would say yes to every man who asked me out on a date.' It sounds disastrous, even scary, though she chose to exclude the drunk, the drugged, the violent, and cheating husbands. The first date was the Puerto Rican handyman who came to fix the toilet with his daughter in tow, the second a 40-year-old who spoke only Polish. One took her to a strip joint, one wanted his penis bitten, one was a woman and one asked her to marry him on the first date. One of the nicest turned out to be the 70-year-old Latino who made obscene sucking noises and claimed to have 11 children. The one Headley got a crush on turned out to be 'mostly gay.' And then what happened? Believe it or not — true love. Reader, she married him. It's sheer chick fluff, but amusing, with names changed 'to protect the indignant, the infantile, and, of course, the innocent.'" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Review:

"Headley's memoir is charming, hyperliterate...and even laugh-out-loud funny. (Grade: A-)" Entertainment Weekly

Review:

"Maria Headley spent a year accepting every date she was offered, and ended up with a story about what happens when you say yes to the universe. This book is painfully funny and tender, and so magical it will make you want to be young again, and in such a city." Haven Kimmel

Review:

"The only thing missing when I was done was an overflowing ashtray and a hangover the size and color of Detroit. Maria is my kind of girl." Laurie Notaro

Review:

"Snappy and readable, Headley's fun memoir will be sought out by singletons everywhere." Booklist

Review:

"With the author torturing herself with the gamut of New York City's available men, and even after she connects with her future husband, the entire zany quest seems hollow and tragic, especially for the reader." Library Journal
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About the Author

Maria Dahvana Headley is an author and playwright who lives in Seattle with her husband and family.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781401302306
Author:
Headley, Maria Dahvana
Publisher:
Hyperion
Subject:
General
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Dating (social customs)
Subject:
Single women
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
Subject:
Love & Romance
Subject:
Single women - New York (State) - New York
Subject:
Dating (Social customs) - New York (State) -
Subject:
Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts
Copyright:
2006
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
January 11, 2006
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.625 in 14.72 oz
Age Level:
All
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"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "When Idaho-born Headley, a 20-year-old NYU drama student, laments, 'I felt like I'd dated and then hated every man in Manhattan,' she thinks perhaps she's too critical. So she 'decided that I would say yes to every man who asked me out on a date.' It sounds disastrous, even scary, though she chose to exclude the drunk, the drugged, the violent, and cheating husbands. The first date was the Puerto Rican handyman who came to fix the toilet with his daughter in tow, the second a 40-year-old who spoke only Polish. One took her to a strip joint, one wanted his penis bitten, one was a woman and one asked her to marry him on the first date. One of the nicest turned out to be the 70-year-old Latino who made obscene sucking noises and claimed to have 11 children. The one Headley got a crush on turned out to be 'mostly gay.' And then what happened? Believe it or not — true love. Reader, she married him. It's sheer chick fluff, but amusing, with names changed 'to protect the indignant, the infantile, and, of course, the innocent.'" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Review" by , "Headley's memoir is charming, hyperliterate...and even laugh-out-loud funny. (Grade: A-)"
"Review" by , "Maria Headley spent a year accepting every date she was offered, and ended up with a story about what happens when you say yes to the universe. This book is painfully funny and tender, and so magical it will make you want to be young again, and in such a city."
"Review" by , "The only thing missing when I was done was an overflowing ashtray and a hangover the size and color of Detroit. Maria is my kind of girl."
"Review" by , "Snappy and readable, Headley's fun memoir will be sought out by singletons everywhere."
"Review" by , "With the author torturing herself with the gamut of New York City's available men, and even after she connects with her future husband, the entire zany quest seems hollow and tragic, especially for the reader."
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