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Mary Jane - A Novel (Paperback)
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"The best book of the summer." -- InStyle "I LOVED this novel....If
you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then
you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm." -Nick Hornby Almost Famous
meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this "delightful" (New York
Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl's coming of
age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family
and the progressive family she nannies for-who happen to be
secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the
summer. In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves
cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying
her family's subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month
record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she's glad when she lands a
summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A
respectable job, Mary Jane's mother says. In a respectable house.
The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it's a
literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment:
Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout
for dinner. And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane's mother to
know, which she does not): the doctor is a psychiatrist who has
cleared his summer for one important job-helping a famous rock star
dry out. A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie
star wife move in. Over the course of the summer, Mary Jane
introduces her new household to crisply ironed clothes and a family
dinner schedule, and has a front-row seat to a liberal world of
sex, drugs, and rock and roll (not to mention group therapy).
Caught between the lifestyle she's always known and the future
she's only just realized is possible, Mary Jane will arrive at
September with a new idea about what she wants out of life, and
what kind of person she's going to be.
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