![]() ![]() A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie star wife move in. 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. The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it's a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface,īumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner. A respectable job, Mary Jane's mother says. ![]() Shy, quiet, and bookish, she's glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. ![]() 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. ) 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. 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. ![]()
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