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Houghton Mifflin
September 2007
On Sale: September 18, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0618834486
EAN: 9780618834488
Hardcover
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Romance | Contemporary
An uproarious and deeply moving tour de force of a debut
that is both a portrait of our times and a wildly original
New York love story Maynard is a defeated musician, a
reformed misanthrope who makes a hobby of surreptitiously
filming the fashion faux pas of New York City subway
commuters. On an uptown Number Six Train, in the summer of
2000, he meets Jennica, a nostalgic Californian and
Princeton graduate who calculates that she’s been lonesome
68.53 percent of her adult life. It is hardly love at
first sight. But when they meet again at Maynard’s film
screening, their romance does indeed blossom. And as with
most things in life, everyone has an opinion. In the case
of Maynard and Jennica, everyone includes: many living and
some dead relatives, a blond-bombshell Russian-Israeli
scam artist, a hip-hop impresario, a shabby lawyer, a long-
lost friend, and a writer for The New Yorker. Exuberantly
illuminating much that is true and often horrifying about
our times, page-turning and wryly funny, Maynard and
Jennica remains at heart a love story. Delson has given us
a pair of lovers who are human, flawed, complex, and at
once eccentric and deeply familiar—and in whose story we
continue to feel invested long after we’ve turned the last
page.
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