The "poignant and hilarious" (Newsday) story of one woman"s twelve months of dating anyone - absolutely anyone - who asked her out. At some point every woman who"s single (and not by choice) wonders whether she"s not somehow responsible for her predicament. Is she too choosy? Should she have given that guy with the combover and the mother issues a shot? Maybe three full feet isn"t too much of a height difference… Maria Dahvana Headley had been there, cherry-picking the men she"d dated based on a variety of criteria, and clearly it wasn"t getting her anywhere. "The Year of Yes" is the hilarious and hopeful account of Headley"s quest to find a man she could stand (for longer than a couple of hours). Frustrated by her own ineffective taste, she resolved to leave her love life up to fate, dating anyone who asked her: homeless men, a millionaire, several non-English speakers, a mime, and even two women. And finally, one man whose baggage would have disqualified him in any other...