Mary Jane quickly becomes an integral component of the Cone household, not only taking care of Izzy, but also cooking and cleaning for the family. Cone, a housewife who-scandalously-doesn’t cook or clean, and Izzy, their winsome daughter. Her familiar world turns upside down, however, when she begins nannying for the Cones, an unconventional family made up of Dr. In the summer of 1975, nothing has stopped earnest 14-year-old Mary Jane Dillard from loyally accepting her strict Presbyterian mother’s beliefs about what it means to be a well-behaved young woman.
We love it when you pin and share our book reviews.An adolescent girl comes of age in this nostalgic novel of 1970s Baltimore. I hope you enjoyed my book review Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau. Read last week’s review Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr *****Five stars for Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau. It is hilarious while being believable and perfectly depicts the era and the changing views of society at the time. This funny and sweet coming of age story has many raucous moments, fun and fabulously developed characters and a plot to rival Daisy Jones and the Six. Mary Jane will be introduced to the world of sex and drugs and rock and roll, and will come out the other side an entirely different person. She learns the “doctor” is a psychiatrist who is spending his summer treating a drug addicted famous rock star and his even more famous movie star wife. Take out food, un-bathed little girl and messy and disorganized Mary Jane’s eyes are open to how the other half lives. But what Mary Jane learns and her mother doesn’t know is the house is one of disarray.
Mary Jane’s mother agrees to the job because a doctor of course is respectable. When Mary Jane takes a summer babysitting job for a local doctor’s family who have just moved into the neighborhood, she has no idea how much this job and this summer will change her life. Mary Jane realizes how her life, her family and her neighborhood shuts out those who are not white, rich, protestant or respectable. But Mary Jane begins to see through the facade of her privileged community. Mary Jane’s parents spend most of the time at “The Club”.
Here is my book review Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blauġ970’s Baltimore and the world is changing, but fourteen year-old Mary Jane is stuck with her prim and proper parents.
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