After her father gambles away her college money, eighteen-year-old Jacqueline "Jay" Winbourne flees to New York City, determined to make it on her own, only to fall in love with a young man much like her dissolute father. A first novel....
Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she travels to the arid plains of eastern Colorado in the mid-1930s to marry Alfred Bowen, ten years her senior. They have met only twice and have come to love each oth...