01925nam a22001937b 4500 20241104142044.0 241104b sa ||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d 9780063112513 pbk RDA OCLC E EF BLAU Blau, Jessica Anya 190403 Mary Jane a novel by Jessica Anya Blau First Edition New York Custom House 2021 311 pages 23 cm 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 ddc BOOK 174 Sanet Schoeman 174 Sanet Schoeman 769879 769878 0 0 ddc 0 0 F STANRL SECL FIC 2024-11-04 465.65 0 EF BLAU 33228031152068 2024-11-04 2024-11-04 BOOK