Mary and the Giant — Philip K. Dick

An early and daring novel from the Hugo Award-winning author about a young woman caught up in the glamor and dangers of 1950s CaliforniaMary Anne Reynolds is young, vulnerable, and looking for love in Pacific Park, California. During her brief affairs with a middle-aged record shop owner and then a black blues singer, she seems to only succeed in offending the people living in the small-town of Pacific Park, both by her choice of lifestyle and choice of suitors. And while she stumbles through her various relationships and faces her overwhelming need to get out of town, Mary Anne shines as a forerunner of the liberated sixties woman (Library Journal) in this novel by the late prolific novelist, Philip K. Dick.