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Poignant, keenly witnessed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the overdue 90s, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, in which a young woman locates herself entangled with one of the last great characters of the century. At 23, after giving graduate university to go after her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff steps to NEW YORK and requires a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days and nights in a plush, wood-paneled office, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their tables after martini lunches. During the night she should go home to the little, threadbare Williamsburg apartment she stocks with her socialist sweetheart. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty, encircled by titanic personalities, and attempting to trust her own imaginative instinct, Rakoff is tasked with responding to Salinger's voluminous fan email. But as she reads the candid, heart-wrenching letters from his viewers surrounding the world, she locates herself unable to type out the agency's decades-old form response. Instead, attracted inexorably into the mental world of Salinger's devotees, she abandons the template and commences writing back. During the period of the entire year, she locates her own tone of voice by performing as Salinger's, on her own dangerous and liberating conditions. Rakoff paints a captivating portrait of an bright, eager young woman navigating a heady and longed-for world, looking to square romantic dreams with burgeoning self-awareness, the idea of a life with life itself. Charming and deeply moving, filled up with electrifying glimpses of an American literary icon, My Salinger 12 months is the coming-of-age storyline of an talented writer. Above all, this is a testament to the general power of literature to condition our lives and awaken our true selves.
