"A Fortunate Age" writer Rakoff tells the true story of how, when she was a young graduate first working in the publishing industry and struggling to stay afloat in New York City, she developed a long-distance friendship of sorts with "The Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger, who was a client of the agency she worked for. Nelson noted that Rakoff's narrative is one that takes place in the end of an era. Although it's the late 1990s, the office Rakoff arrives to work in doesn't even have a fax machine. The book is "a coming-of-age story," Nelson says.
