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Mary Jane : a novel / Jessica Anya Blau.

Blau, Jessica Anya, (author.).

Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781432890872
  • Physical Description: 427 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
Subject: Nannies > Fiction.
Rock musicians > Fiction.
Baltimore (Md.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre: Large type books.
Bildungsromans.
Humorous fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 9 of 9 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
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Ellwood City Area Public Library LT F Blau (Text)
Memorial: Virginia "Jean" Scott given by The Paul Eonta Family.
32102000887691 ECAM Fiction Large-Print Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) LP BLA (Text) 91081950 GFWM Main Room Available -
Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library LP FIC BLAU (Text) 39636100435318 Large Print Fiction Available -
Littlestown Library LP FIC BLAU JESSICA (Text) 35740635790512 Large Print Fiction Available -
RPL - Northeast Branch LP Fiction Blau (Text) 33223008824566 Large Print Fiction Available -
Williamsburg Public Library LGPR FIC BLA (Text) 110WIL0067992K Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Wyomissing Public Library LP BLA (Text) 35012001499775 Large Print Available -
Allentown Public Library BLAU, JESSICA (Text) 34455006837047 Large Print Available -
Hughes Library L.P. F BLA (Text) 32378005059920 Adult New Large Print Available -


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