false 1253749 4 An uproarious and deeply moving tour de force of a debut that is both a portrait of our times and a wildly original New York love story. Maynard is a defeated musician, a reformed misanthrope who makes a hobby of surreptitiously filming the fashion faux pas of New York City subway commuters. On an uptown Number Six Train, in the summer of 2000, he meets Jennica, a nostalgic Californian and Princeton graduate who calculates that she's been lonesome 68.53 percent of her adult life. It is hardly love at first sight. But when they meet again at Maynard's film screening, their romance does indeed blossom. And as with most things in life, everyone has an opinion. In the case of Maynard and Jennica, everyone includes: many living and some dead relatives, a blond-bombshell Russian-Israeli scam artist, a hip-hop impresario, a shabby lawyer, a long-lost friend, and a writer for The New Yorker. Exuberantly illuminating much that is true and often horrifying about our times, page-turning and wryly funny, Maynard and Jennica remains at heart a love story. Delson has given us a pair of lovers who are human, flawed, complex, and at once eccentric and deeply familiar, and in whose story we continue to feel invested long after we've turned the last page. 2174623 18 9 2007 Maynard and Jennica total:286|5:37|4:123|3:87|2:29|1:10| 286 1006 478 111 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 07:46:43 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 06:32:11 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 12 11:39:52 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 11:57:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 10:53:17 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 10:57:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:57:51 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:58:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 08 17:25:43 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:42:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 17:46:06 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 13:02:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 19:44:09 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 11:06:33 -0700 2008 I don't remember how I heard about Maynard & Jennica, by Rudolph Delson. Doesn't really matter - it ended up on my list so I requested it from the library. It's billed as a love story, with a lot of minor characters. In this it is perhaps like Beginner's Greek. But...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 12:39:45 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 12:41:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 07:13:29 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 07:26:35 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 true false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 17:58:13 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 18:33:00 -0700 2007 Got this galley in March and read the first chapter. Wasn't so sure about it; the voice of Jennica...mildly annoying. Finally though, I gave it another shot seven months later.

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