Mary Jane
2021 • 320 pages

Ratings21

Average rating4.2

15

I really enjoyed this slice of life story about teenager Mary Jane and her summer job nannying for a neighborhood family. The story does a good job of describing that point in time where households were beginning to transition away from the Donna Reed housewife era. I grew up in this era, and the descriptions of little Izzy's feral Gen-X upbringing were pretty spot on. Loved all the references to the music, I'll have to look up the author's playlist.

November 22, 2024