Jessica Anya Blau

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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Fourteen-year-old Jamie will never forget the summer of 1976. It's the summer when she has her first boyfriend, cute surfer Flip Jenkins; it's the summer when her two best friends get serious about sex, cigarettes, and tanning; it's the summer when h...

• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction
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They say you can never really go home again. Adult siblings Anna, Portia, and Emery are about to discover just how true that is. ...

• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction
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Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, delivers another darkly hilarious, heartbreaking coming-of-age novel with Wonder Bread Summer. In The Wonder Bread Summer, loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, 20-year-old Allie Dodgs...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Bestselling author Jessica Anya Blau's delicious stories about women behaving badly are perfect for a before-bedtime literary romp. Could a little yellow pill be responsible for landing Lexie James in the bed of her lover-and her lover's wife? Whatev...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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We think of the past as a more innocent time. But in these stories of California teenagers acting out in the last years of the ’70s, it’s easy to see that love, loss, and heartbreak are even more poignant when viewed through 15- or 16-year-old ey...

• Jul-2016
• / General Fiction
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From the beloved author of "The Wonder Bread Summer," comes the jaw-dropping story of Lexie James, a counselor at an exclusive New England prep school whose search for happiness lands her in unexpectedly wild trouble. Lexie James escaped: after being...

• May-2021
• / Literary
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Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for -- who happen to be secretly hiding a fam...

• May-2025
• / Literary
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From the author of the “delightful” (New York Times Book Review) Mary Jane, a new novel of found family, growing up, and the best and worst of the 1980s, revolving around San Francisco’s most exclusive department store, I. Magnin.Nineteen-...