Sylvia Marshall grows up in a Midwestern college town, the daughter of a professor and a mother who keep a plain, thoughtful home that the faculty wives find odd. As she grows into a young woman she is drawn toward money, beauty and society through rich friends and suitors, and must decide which life she truly wants.
A perceptive coming-of-age novel that stands among Dorothy Canfield’s best, for readers of American domestic fiction. Download the free EPUB.