Bargain (Kindle) Maynard and Jennica by Rudolph Delson (Romance/Humor)

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Maynard and Jennica: A Novel by Rudolph Delson is $1.87 at the US Kindle store (B&N has it listed at $9.99)

Product Description:

A wildly original debut, Maynard and Jennica is both a hilarious urban comedy and a captivating love story. In the summer of 2000, while riding the uptown number 6 train, the musician/filmmaker Maynard Gogarty first encounters the beautiful Jennica Green.Though their initial meeting is brief, when fate next brings them together a romance ensues, and as with most things in life, everyone has an opinion.

Delson tells the story of this improbable love affair through the voices of Maynard and Jennica, along with their family, friends, and assorted characters (among them two attorneys, three journalists, and a rap star) pulled into their dizzying orbit. He brings to life a pair of lovers who are flawed, complex, at once eccentric and deeply familiar—and in whose story we continue to feel invested long after we’ve turned the last page.

In the words of Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, “this book is the reason we should all read first novels.”

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Hmmm...is this really a romance?

I tend to think that men write "love stories" rather than "romances". It's like Nick Sparks - the women always end up dead or otherwise unattainable at the end of the book. Utterly depressing!

Have you happened to read this? Do you know if "genre" label is correct?