The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
By Elna Baker
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.
UGH!! I feel as if I can speak for the group as a whole when I say that this book was irritating as they come. Well, ok...maybe not totally irritation. There were some good parts. The whole story is about a girl who is looking for herself. Like many of us in our young adult life, she is trying to find the balance between how she was raised, the beliefs that had been instilled in her, the influences of the world around her and the experiences that she had. All of these factors come into play as she tries to figure out who she is and how she wants to be that person. Sounds great, right?
The whole book you spend rooting for her. You want her figure out who she is. Somehow if she can do that, then there's hope for you! Cut to the end, the place where it's all supposed to come together...you hold your breath hoping that there's some great resolution and some words of wisdom...
Nada...nothing....zilch...
Your left holding the bag, wondering how that happened.
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