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About the Author

JESSICA ANYA BLAU is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and three other critically acclaimed novels,most recently The Trouble with Lexie. Her novels have been recommended and featured on CNN, NPR, the Today show, and in Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, and many other national magazines and newspapers, as well as on Oprah’s summer reading lists.

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Also by Jessica Anya Blau

The Trouble with Lexie

The Wonder Bread Summer

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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiouslyand are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead,is entirely coincidental.

mary jane. Copyright © 2021 by Jessica Anya Blau. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Bypayment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text ofthis e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, orstored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronicor mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Blau, Jessica Anya, author.

Title: Mary Jane : a novel / Jessica Anya Blau.

Description: First Edition. | New York, NY : Custom House, [2021]

Identifiers: LCCN 2020047171 (print) | LCCN 2020047172 (ebook) | ISBN 9780063052291 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780063052307 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780063052314 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PS3602.L397 M37 2021 (print) | LCC PS3602.L397 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047171

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047172

Digital Edition MAY 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-305231-4

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-305229-1

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-31125-3 (international edition)

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