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  • "…beautifully captures a moment in history…a warm, witty, occasionally sly piece
    of storytelling."

    —Harper’s Bazaar (UK)

  • "…an utterly beguiling memoir, not only about Salinger and a bygone era of publishing, but about relationships, finding one’s voice, and surviving in
    the big city."

    —The Bookseller (UK)

  • "This is an impossibly excellent read —a glowingly entertaining, miss-your-subway-stop engrossing, note-perfect piece of storytelling"

    —Charles Bock,
    author of New York Times bestseller, Beautiful Children

  • "Joanna Rakoff is the literary world’s Lena Dunham, both of them witty, sensitive, elegantly baffled, zeitgeist-hitting Brooklyn ladies of their respective half-generations."

    —Sheila Weller, author of the New York Times bestseller Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, and the Journey of a Generation

  • "This is a vibrant coming-of-age memoir that moves along with momentum and energy, and one only wishes Rakoff had spent more than one year with Salinger so we’d have an even fuller portrait of a man who was and is often misunderstood."

    —Publishers Weekly

My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
Available June 3, 2014

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An excerpt of My Salinger Year is in the May issue of Vogue!

My Salinger Year is a BookSense, IndieNext pick and Amazon pick for June.

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