John spends weekends with his fair-weather father and the rest of the week with his emotionally fragile mother. Although he believes himself to be "immune to emotion," he reveals his loneliness and alienation in his �zine, Bananafish. When he forces a meeting with Marisol, a testy, gifted, and talented senior, who is the author of his favorite �zine, Escape Velocity, he finds exactly what he hoped for�a kindred spirit.
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