Years of Grace
by Margaret Ayer Barnes
“She lived by all the rules—and watched the world rewrite them.”
Jane Ward's life unfolds across five decades of American change, from her sheltered Chicago girlhood in the 1890s through marriage, motherhood, and the Jazz Age. As she navigates duty versus desire and watches her children embrace freedoms she never had, Jane grapples with the choices that define a woman's life and the grace required to accept them.
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