A review by kategci
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

3.0

Liked, but didn't love this memoir about the author's time post graduate school where she worked at an old school literary agency. Her boss was J.D. Salinger's agent and the author spent her year trying not to talk to Salinger and answering some of his fan mail. During this year, she moved in with a narcissistic Socialist and in the way of many 20 somethings, did not listen to her inner voice telling her he was a loser, especially compared to her last boyfriend whose heart she broke. Well-written, it kept me turning the pages and the inside workings of an esteemed pre-digital literary agency, with all the characters interested me the most.