#50 Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau"Almost Famous" meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this funny, wise, and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her strait-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for—who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.
Having grown up in the 70s, there was a nostalgic feel about this book. I liked Mary Jane but felt like the author could've done more with the situations she presented. Essentially, Mary Jane saw her straight laced parents as bad and the drug using hippies as good. Showing the shades of grey on both sides would've made a more interesting read.
