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kierstenevan 's review for:
Mary Jane
by Jessica Anya Blau
My friend and I are always swapping book recommendations back and forth and usually I just add them to my Goodreads TBR. With Mary Jane though, I immediately found the audiobook on Scribd and jumped right in based on her description: “it was like Judy Blume meets Daisy Jones”. And let me tell you, I don’t know a better way to describe this book.
Mary Jane is told from the perspective of a high-school girl who’s spending her summer break nannying for a neighboring couple whose daughter is 4 years old. While she doesn’t know at first why they need help that summer in particular, Mary Jane learns almost immediately that the father, a psychiatrist, is going to be spending the summer treating a famous musician with a heroin addiction, and that his wife will be busy entertaining the musician’s wife, leaving Mary Jane to take care of their daughter Izzie.
Mary Jane is a coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old girl discovering who she is when caught between her uptight home-life and at the Cohens’ with no rules or structure to speak of. Neither house is what I would describe as entirely appropriate for a 14-year-old, much less a 4-year-old, but the combination helps Mary Jane to figure out who she is.
An added bonus of reading this on audiobook? At the end of the book there’s a recorded version of one of the character’s original songs!
Mary Jane is told from the perspective of a high-school girl who’s spending her summer break nannying for a neighboring couple whose daughter is 4 years old. While she doesn’t know at first why they need help that summer in particular, Mary Jane learns almost immediately that the father, a psychiatrist, is going to be spending the summer treating a famous musician with a heroin addiction, and that his wife will be busy entertaining the musician’s wife, leaving Mary Jane to take care of their daughter Izzie.
Mary Jane is a coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old girl discovering who she is when caught between her uptight home-life and at the Cohens’ with no rules or structure to speak of. Neither house is what I would describe as entirely appropriate for a 14-year-old, much less a 4-year-old, but the combination helps Mary Jane to figure out who she is.
An added bonus of reading this on audiobook? At the end of the book there’s a recorded version of one of the character’s original songs!