Good Time Girl
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The instant New York Times bestselling author of the “raw and revealing” (Interview magazine) Bad Mormon, and star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and documentary series Surviving Mormonism, returns with a hilarious and candid national bestseller about life and love as a former Mormon, mother, and reality TV star.
In the “confident debut” (The Daily Beast) Bad Mormon, Heather Gay pulled back the veil on her orthodox adolescence and marriage in the Mormon Church, and the painful process of leaving it all behind. Becoming a successful business owner and reality TV star gave the single mom of three a second lease on life. After years of living in an insular bubble, Heather emerged bright-eyed, eager to take on the world…no matter how ill-equipped her upbringing might have left her.
Now, in this provocative and laugh-out-loud funny follow-up, the mother of three proves that she isn’t just a Bad Mormon—she’s also a Good Time Girl.
With her “thoughtful, smart, and funny” (Kirkus Reviews) writing, Heather recounts the humorous trysts, mishaps, and serendipitous success she’s found as a life-long reveler in all things indulgent. From illicit high school trips to Tijuana and awkward dates set up by her overzealous costars, Good Time Girl is a charming and intimate meditation on community, love, independence, womanhood, and—most importantly—second chances.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Gay's featherweight follow-up to Bad Mormon offers a humorous if diffuse look at the author's lifelong pursuit of pleasure. Peppered with observations about men, sex, food, and fun, the narrative can read like a teenage diary (early on, Gay shares a letter from her early 20s in which she admits she only "wants to be a superstar"), but the proceedings gain a measure of gravity whenever she discusses her Mormon upbringing in Colorado. Fans of the show, or of Gay's previous memoir, will be familiar with the bullet points of her entanglement with the LDS church: her early devoutness, her eventual divorce from her husband, and her subsequent struggle to reconcile her identity as a wife and mother with an inner desire to let loose. Unfortunately, the book's scattered focus dulls the impact of that arc, with entire chapters dedicated to prepubescent ear piercing and Gay's teenage affinity for Neil Young. More serious sections, including one on body positivity, can feel muddled; Gay acknowledges the harms of fat-shaming before blithely endorsing weight loss drugs. There's something to be said for Gay's commitment to candor, but this is strictly for hardcore Housewives fans.
