The Year of Yes: The Story of a Girl, a Few Hundred Dates, and Fate

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 change, to say yes to every person who asks her out-a taxi driver, a homeless man-you name it, she'll say yes for an entire year. In her year-long quest, she goes from dating guys who think that NPR (national public radio) is a turn-on, to a guy who wants to introduce her to God (his name for his penis), to a homeless man who thinks he is Jimi Hendrix and many permutations in between. The book is divided into a chapter for each month of the year and takes you on a hilarious journey through Headley's oddest dates as well as her gradual development from being deeply judgmental to being open to any type of guy (or woman, for that matter) who expresses an interest in her. Love and perseverance wins out in the end and by the year's end, she meets the man she eventually marries. If you enjoyed He's Just Not That Into You, you will love this book. Headley has a young, fresh voice with tinges of humour, intellectual allusions and a combination of both (as a child she decided to make her way through the entire alphabet at the local library and managed to make it to M by the time she graduated). In the end, Headley ends up with an older man with two children who she formerly would have excluded as a possibility. Her year of yes opened not only her mind but also her heart.