EAN: 9780063052307

MARY JANE - JESSICA ANYA BLAU KARTONIERT (TB)

"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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