num_pages: 296
description: In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a faraway place with little money and few friends. But Carl and Annie come to realize that the struggles and uncertainty of poverty and hardship can be overcome by the strength of a loving, loyal relationship. An unsentimental yet uplifting story, Joy in the Morning is a timeless and radiant novel of marriage and young love.
language: English
title: Joy in the Morning
titlecomplete: Joy in the Morning
characters: Annie McGairy, Carl Brown
genres: Coming Of Age, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Adult, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 7900
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Midwest
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics