Picture being a 14 year old girl living in Baltimore in the 1970's. Gerald Ford is our President. Refrigerators come in avocado green. Mary Jane lives with her strict parents. She helps her mother cook and she enjoys singing in the church choir. She gets a job babysitting a 5 year old girl named Izzy Cone whose father is a doctor. When Mary Jane gets to the Cone house she learns that not every house hold has clean floors, scheduled meals, and ironed clothes. The Cone house hold is a mess. The refrigerator has rotting food. Soiled clothes are piled everywhere. Mary Jane takes care of Izzy while also doing the laundry, cleaning the fridge, and organizing the house. Soon she learns that a famous rock star and his movie star wife are moving into the Cone household for the summer so that rock star can "dry out." Their presence must be kept a secret. Mary Jane is having the summer of her life. She knows her parents would be shocked if they knew what was going on so she keeps the facts to herself. Being respectable is a quality held very dear to her parents. By the end of the summer, Mary Jane has a very different outlook on what she hopes to accomplish in her life. This book, written by Anya Blau, left me feeling cozy and content.
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