My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM - Hardcover

Here is the story of a reader becoming a writer, of a young woman deciding who she will be, of the power of books. Here is a memoir that manages to be dreamlike but sharp, poignant but unsentimental. Here is a book I'm going to have to insist you read immediately (Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements)

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 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)

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 (Caroline Sanderson Bookseller)

A warm, witty, occasionally sly piece of storytelling ... An affectionate love letter to a first job in an industry that in just 20 years has changed beyond recognition (Sam Baker Harper's Bazaar )

My Salinger Year's reference points, from the Brooklyn brownstones to the Danish pastries wolfed on the number 6 train to 51st Street, are all American, but the emotional landscape it conjures up will be just as true for readers on this side of the pond. Anyone who has struggled to find their bearings as an unworldly young adult will be deeply moved by it - I certainly was (Emma Hughes Country Life 2014-06-16)

This book is hard to put down. irresistible (Lucy Atkins Sunday Times)

Like a literary The Devil Wears Prada . an irresistible read (Harper’s Bazaar)

Anyone who has ever dreamed of a life in books will find much to love in Joanna Rakoff's memoir ... Funny and knowing, it's both an idiosyncratic tribute to Salinger's writing and an affirmation of the power of books to spark tectonic human connections (Metro)

Extraordinary ... Gripping and funny ... My Salinger Year is a treat even Jerry might have enjoyed (Rachel Cooke Observer)