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The Year of Yes

by Maria Dahvana Headley

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Headley, a wise-cracking New York City girl with as much wit as any character on Sex and the City, is jaded and cynical about men in New York. She vows to say yes to any and every person who asks her out - a taxi driver, a homeless man - you name it, she'll say yes for an entire year. By the year's end, she meets the man she eventually marries. 'The Year of Yes' is the hilarious and hopeful true account of one woman's quest to find a man she can stand (for longer than a couple of hours). Frustrated by her own pitiful taste, writer Maria Headley decided to leave her love life up to fate, going out with everyone who asked her: homeless men, taxi drivers, and yes, even a couple of women. Opening her heart and mind to the possibility that her perfect match might be the person she least expects, she spent 12 months dating most of New York City, and beyond, including: JARZHE: A Microsoft Millionaire who still lived with his motherTHE ROCKSTAR: A young homeless man who believed himself to be Jimi HendrixIRA: Her high school nemesis, whom she'd spent seven years rejectingTHE MIME: A man in the Marceau Mold who proposed with hand gesturesCHUPA CHUPA: A 70-year-old neighborhood eccentric who spoke only Spanish And finally, a man whose baggage should have taken him off her list - at least until 'The Year of Yes' taught her what was really important: love and perseverance always wins in the end.… (more)
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What is it with NYC girls going crazy, trying something for a year and then writing a book? This one was not bad, but I couldn't help feel that I'd read it before with a cooking theme. Also, too much manufactured drama, but good for her, she found her man (only a slight eye roll here) ( )
  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
this was well written but i expected more from it. i wasn't looking for funny stories of terrible dates and embarrassing moments, foibles in love. i was looking for a changing capacity to be open to new ideas, experiences, people. this is in there, but it's largely buried under the rest of the stories of bad dates. which probably makes for a more popular book, but one with less depth. i also wasn't looking for her to give us a happily ever after (i mean, i'm glad she has it, i just wanted the point of her year of saying yes to be more for her personal growth, and not a desperate search for love.) as far as the romance goes. still it was well written, and has the best note/foreword in any memoir i've read:

"This book has been reconstructed from memory. My memory. Subject to vagaries, hangovers, emotional meltdowns, and the occasional unrequited vendetta. Some of the people in this book are gonna be happy about this, and some of you aren't. I've tried to be kind where I could be, and if I couldn't be entirely kind while still telling the truth, at least I've edited some of your bad dialogue and made you wittier than you were."

so, i wanted more from it, but i enjoyed her writing and would be interested in seeing what her plays are like. ( )
  overlycriticalelisa | Mar 29, 2016 |
This was entertaining, but I wasn't expecting going into it that the author would be so young. Throwing aside expectations at age 20 isn't as difficult or remarkable as someone undertaking the same project at, say, age 40, if for no other reason than a woman of the latter age probably wouldn't be asked out 12 times in every block of the city.

Her age was a big issue for me, throughout the book and especially at the end. Yeah, she fell in love... but it's really, really not the same to be 21 and meet your knight in shining armor after kissing a lot of frogs as it is when you're older and you kind of *have* to settle a little bit more. ( )
  Seven.Stories.Press | Jun 13, 2014 |
A fun memoir of Headley's young adulthood in New York. Headley decides to accept every single date invitation she receives for a year. Her attitude is refreshing, her gameness amusing, and the results are almost predictably heartwarming. ( )
  satyridae | Apr 5, 2013 |
I heard about this book when I saw an interview with the author on TV. She came across as warm, funny, and talked about how saying yes opened her life to such wonderful things. The book is a bit different. She does a great job showing how her dysfunctional upbringing made it hard for her to have stable relationships. She also goes through the emotional pulls of those relationships, and how they affected her. I didn't like her choices, and there were many times when she seemed to be more of an observer than a participant. On the other hand, I remember being in my early 20s, and a lot of my relationship choices were similarly adrift.

Headley is an excellent writer, and I enjoyed the book. The one complaint I have is that the successful relationship, with her husband, referred to in the book as The Playwright, gets really short shrift. She describes their meeting, and it is the only part that seems fake, mannered rather than authentic. (She sensed a deep sadness in him, hidden by his professional smile. Yuck.) Later, as an aside, she mentions that they were writing letters back and forth, and he had become a friend. How did that happen? When? Then, boom! Happy ending! I understand that her husband may not want the details of their relationship out there, especially since he was married to the mother of his children at the time. But this was the one part of the book that felt less than honest, and it stood out against the rest of her writing. ( )
  teckelvik | Nov 21, 2012 |
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Headley, a wise-cracking New York City girl with as much wit as any character on Sex and the City, is jaded and cynical about men in New York. She vows to say yes to any and every person who asks her out - a taxi driver, a homeless man - you name it, she'll say yes for an entire year. By the year's end, she meets the man she eventually marries. 'The Year of Yes' is the hilarious and hopeful true account of one woman's quest to find a man she can stand (for longer than a couple of hours). Frustrated by her own pitiful taste, writer Maria Headley decided to leave her love life up to fate, going out with everyone who asked her: homeless men, taxi drivers, and yes, even a couple of women. Opening her heart and mind to the possibility that her perfect match might be the person she least expects, she spent 12 months dating most of New York City, and beyond, including: JARZHE: A Microsoft Millionaire who still lived with his motherTHE ROCKSTAR: A young homeless man who believed himself to be Jimi HendrixIRA: Her high school nemesis, whom she'd spent seven years rejectingTHE MIME: A man in the Marceau Mold who proposed with hand gesturesCHUPA CHUPA: A 70-year-old neighborhood eccentric who spoke only Spanish And finally, a man whose baggage should have taken him off her list - at least until 'The Year of Yes' taught her what was really important: love and perseverance always wins in the end.

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