Jimmy and his actress wife, Sheba, move into the Cones’ attic for the summer. Cone is a psychiatrist whose top-secret assignment is helping a rock star to kick his drug addiction. They are messy bohemians who think nothing of walking around the house half-naked, shouting up and down the stairs at each other, or leaving a fridge full of groceries to rot and going out for fast food instead.ĭr. When Mary Jane starts working as a daytime nanny for five-year-old Izzy, the Cones’ way of life is a revelation to her. Her parents are prim types who attend church every week, belong to a country club, and pray for the (Republican) president’s health before each sit-down family dinner. Mary Jane Dillard, 14, lives in the upper-class white neighborhood of Roland Park. Are you having a groovy June yet? If not, I have just the remedy: a juicy coming-of-age novel that drops you directly into the Baltimore summer of 1975.
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