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Houghton Mifflin
September 2007
On Sale: September 18, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0618834486
EAN: 9780618834488
Hardcover
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Contemporary | Romance
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 sheβs been lonesome 68.53 percent of her adult life. It is hardly love at first sight. But when they meet again at Maynardβs 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 familiarβand in whose story we continue to feel invested long after weβve turned the last page.
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