A review by fbroom
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

4.0

A light hearted, fun and charming read. She is a young graduate with an MFA and this is her first real job. The memoir spans a full year of Joanna's life in New York working at the Agency. This though isn't really about Salinger, but maybe the publisher wanted it to be? It's about her struggle with adjusting to real life with student loans, a low income in publishing and with her not so great boyfriend. Some people as always would complain that these aren't real problems but this is book isn't about a tragedy. This is a light read.

I read this in in Los Angeles / November 2014