Maynard & Jennica by Rudolph Delson – Review

Maynard and Jennica by Rudolph Delson

Where does dignity stop and life begin? Or, rather, when is the right moment to throw it all away and fall in love? Maynard and Jennica meet on a sweaty summer’s day, in a stalled subway train. He’s a musician, she’s a personnel manager; they both have terribly high principles. In true New York style, everyone weighs in on their affair – from Jennica’s West Coast web designer brother (who makes his free-range, organic 10-grain French toast from scratch, of course) to Maynard’s stunningly practical lawyer friend (on black trainers: ‘I can wear them running, I can wear them to court with a suit. I own one pair of shoes, they cost me 40 dollars’), right down to the shrieking train alarm. Rudolph Delson has created that rare and lovely thing: a charming, clever, thoughtful comedy.

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