It was the mid-1990s and Joanna Rakoff, fresh out of grad school, was thrilled to land a job at a New York literary agency (even though her computer-less new office seemed oddly old-fashioned). From day one she was told that key to her work was "protecting Jerry." It took her a moment to understand that Jerry was J.D. Salinger – the agency's principal client and a writer she had never read. "My Salinger Year" is a delightfully wry coming-of-age memoir about a young woman and the famous writer who came to play an important role in her life. You can see a Monitor interview with Joanna Rakoff here.
