Maynard and Jennica (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780547085715)

A wildly original debut, Maynard and Jennica is both a hilarious urban comedy and a captivating love story. In the summer of 2000, while riding the uptown number 6 train, the musician/filmmaker Maynard Gogarty first encounters the beautiful Jennica Green.Though their initial meeting is brief, when fate next brings them together a romance ensues, and as with most things in life, everyone has an opinion.
Delson tells the story of this improbable love affair through the voices of Maynard and Jennica, along with their family, friends, and assorted characters (among them two attorneys, three journalists, and a rap star) pulled into their dizzying orbit.He brings to life a pair of lovers who are flawed, complex, at once eccentric and deeply familiar--and in whose story we continue to feel invested long after we've turned the last page.
In the words of Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, "this book is the reason we should all read first novels."

Author: Rudolph Delson
ISBN-10: 0547085710
ISBN-13: 9780547085715
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.33w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/22/2009 pg. 20