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Jessica Anya Blau was born in Boston and raised in Southern California. Her novels have been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN and NPR, and in Cosmo , Vanity Fair, In Style, Country Living, Bust, Time Out, Parade, Oprah Summer Reads and other national publications.
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"I LOVE Jessica Anya Blau's novel. MARY JANE is about an oppressed teenager being given a jolt of life and joy by an eccentric found family of therapists, a child, a rock star and a movie star in the 1970s.
May 6, 2021 · Jessica Anya Blau has been delivering summer reads to her fans since her 2008 debut, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, which was set in the author’s native Southern California in the 1970s. Her latest, Mary Jane, returns to that period, but this time in Roland Park, where Blau arrived in the early aughts.
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Jun 8, 2021 · Mary Jane, the title character of Jessica Anya Blau’s latest novel, is a nice girl. She cooks with her mother, sings in the church choir, and knows the lyrics to practically every Broadway showtune ever written. At 14, Mary Jane is both a girl and an old woman.
Jessica Anya Blau is a bestselling literary fiction author from the United States. The author was born in Boston but spent most of her childhood in Southern California. She went to the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University and got her masters from the latter.
Feb 16, 2012 · Jessica Anya Blau is one of Baltimore’s most esteemed novelists. She is the author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (2008) and Drinking Closer to Home (2011), both of which have received immense praise by the Today Show, The New York Post, New York Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and the Rocky Mountain News.
May 11, 2021 · Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau is a 2021 Custom House publication. Mary Jane, a fourteen-year-old from Baltimore accepts a summer job babysitting five-year old Izzy Cone. Izzy’s father is a psychiatrist who takes on a famous rock star with a serious drug problem.