Another NPR find - this one someone I heard on The Moth and I think I also heard on This American Life.
Elna is a Mormon from the West Coast who moves to New York City to go to college and ends up living there for several years in her early 20's. This is a collection of essays about her life in the city as she struggles to figure out how much of her Mormon background she wants to carry forward in her adult life. Many chapters read like "No Sex and the City." Others are more about her jobs (among others, at FAO Schwartz and Nobu) or her family relationships.
This was definitely a quick read that kept my attention. Baker is a funny writer, able to see humor in her own misadventures. Her ongoing conflict between the secular and the traditional is well-described and it is easy to empathize with her.
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