As Jessica Anya Blau’s latest novel starts, Mary Jane has just turned 14. She’s starting a summer job as a nanny of an endearing five-year-old, just a short walk from her own traditional home in Baltimore’s Roland Park. Mary Jane’s conservative parents think it’s great their daughter will be working for a doctor. They don’t yet know he’s a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer schedule to treat a recovering drug addict who’s a rock star … and whose movie-star wife will also spend the summer. Blau says:  “Mary Jane suddenly enters this world of chaos, confusion, rock and roll, group therapy, sex … everything is happening in this house. And it kind of changes her life.”

Coming of age. In Roland Park. In 1975.

Links: Mary Jane, upcoming book release talks and events.

As <a href="https://www.jessicaanyablau.com/">Jessica Anya Blau</a>&rsquo;s latest novel starts, Mary Jane has just turned 14. She&rsquo;s starting a summer job as a nanny of an endearing five-year-old, just a short walk from her own traditional home in Baltimore&rsquo;s Roland Park. Mary Jane&rsquo;s conservative parents think it&rsquo;s great their daughter will be working for a doctor. They don&rsquo;t yet know he&rsquo;s a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer schedule to treat a recovering drug addict who&rsquo;s a rock star &hellip; and whose movie-star wife will also spend the summer. Blau says:&nbsp; &ldquo;Mary Jane suddenly enters this world of chaos, confusion, rock and roll, group therapy, sex &hellip; everything is happening in this house. And it kind of changes her life.&rdquo;
Coming of age. In Roland Park. In 1975.
Links: <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/mary-jane-jessica-anya-blau?variant=32269630504994">Mary Jane</a>, <a href="https://www.jessicaanyablau.com/news-and-events">upcoming book release talks and events.</a>

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