This is not to say that her employers are innocent or perfect, yet their honesty helps Mary Jane discover herself as an individual simultaneously converging with the universal epiphany that parents are simply fallible humans rather than gods.įor people who came of age in the 1970’s, this book is a retrospective blast involving all the kitsch of the ‘70’s, Bonne Bell lip gloss, Aqua Net hairspray, to starch ironed sheets, just to name a few. When she gets the chance to nanny for a summer for two liberal by-products of the 60’s types, she realizes just how uptight (and prejudicially close minded) her parents are. Mary Jane is an only child teen stuck in the middle of these extremes with two conservative parents still clinging to ‘traditional’ values. shows like All in the Family), and a period of wild decadence ie. A decade duly described as an oxymoron considering it was both an era of candid innocence (think of the t.v. Mary Jane: A Novel is the perfect summer time fiction read set in Baltimore, Maryland and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware during the oxymoronic 1970’s.
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