{"product_id":"mary-jane","title":"Mary Jane","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"The best book of the summer.\" -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eInStyle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"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.\" ‚ÄîNick Hornby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAlmost Famous \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003emeets \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDaisy Jones \u0026amp; The Six \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ein this \"delightful\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl‚Äôs coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for‚Äîwho happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family‚Äôs subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she‚Äôs glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane‚Äôs mother says. In a respectable house.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it‚Äôs a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eImpeachment: Now More Than Ever\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner. And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane‚Äôs mother to know, which she does not): the doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job‚Äîhelping a famous rock star dry out. A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie star wife move in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver 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‚Äôs always known and the future she‚Äôs 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‚Äôs going to be. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003ecollapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50210308817181,"sku":"9780063052307","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780063052307.jpg?v=1753981781","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/mary-jane","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}