Overview
FromBetty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows inBrooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting taleof young love and marriage.In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairymeet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway acrossthe country to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law--and therethey marry. But Carl and Annie's first year together is much more difficultthan they anticipated as they find themselves in a faraway place with littlemoney and few friends. With hardship and poverty weighing heavily upon them, theycome to realize that their greatest sources of strength, loyalty, and love, will help them make it through. A moving and unforgettable story, Joy in the Morning is "a glad affirmation that love can accomplishthe impossible." (Chicago Tribune)
- | Author: Betty Smith
- | Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- | Publication Date: May 05, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0061774332
- | ISBN-13: 9780061774331
