The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir

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4.5
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About this ebook

"A wickedly funny debut. Baker is both self-absorbed and generous, whip-smart and naïve; she apologizes for none of it."—People

It's lonely being a Mormon in New York City. Every year, Elna Baker attends the New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance. This year, her Queen Bee costume (which involves a funnel stinger stuck to her butt) isn't attracting the attention she'd anticipated. So once again, Elna finds herself alone, standing at the punch bowl, stocking up on Oreos, a virgin in a room full of thirty-year-old virgins doing the Funky Chicken. But loneliness is nothing compared to what Elna feels when she loses eighty pounds, finds herself suddenly beautiful... and in love with an atheist.

Brazenly honest, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance is Elna Baker's hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of her attempt to find love in a city full of strangers and see if she can steer clear of temptation and just get by on God.

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4.5
14 reviews
A Google user
February 17, 2011
I have not read this book. I opened it, discovered that Elna Baker's notions about memoir, a non-fiction form, permit changing events and creating characters, and decided that such actions turn a text into fiction, and, although I am interested in reading fiction, too, I have no interest in reading a test in which the author can't tell fiction from non-fiction.
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A Google user
October 26, 2012
Elna Baker is charming as she is honest. I have read this book 4(!) times. If you enjoyed My Big Fat Greek Wedding ,you're in for a sarcastic, self-depreciating treat.
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A Google user
November 24, 2012
I forgot now what made me get this book other than I like memoirs but I loved this book and was entertained the whole way through.
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About the author

ELNA BAKER is a Mormon stand-up comedian and writer. She has performed in many of New York City’s hottest venues, including Caroline’s and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre, as well as on NPR’s This American Life, and received grants for her work from Yaddo and Breadloaf. Baker lives in New York City.

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