Years of Grace
by Margaret Ayer Barnes · first published 1930
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The novel, set in late nineteenth century Chicago, spans four decades in the life of Jane Ward Carver, daughter of a wealthy family, from child all the way to grandmother, and shows the changing world through her eyes.
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