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A Proper Pursuit, Paperback / softback Book

A Proper Pursuit Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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20-year-old Violet Hayes is distressed to learn that her father is remarrying-and that her mother, whom Violet believed lay recovering from a mysterious illness in a sanitarium somewhere, had in fact simply abandoned her family and filed for divorce.

To escape a stepmother-to-be she can't stand, Violet heads to Chicago to stay with her grandmother and great-aunts.

Although she's recently graduated from a genteel school for young ladies, it's in Chicago that Violet's real education begins.

One great-aunt tries to persuade her to join the suffrage movement, while another introduces Violet to elite society and urges her to catch a wealthy husband.

Her grandmother, who takes her cues from Jane Addams, introduces Violet to the world of revivalist Christianity and inner-city good works, prompting Violet to re-examine her own faith.

Two questions drive the plot: will Violet find her mother, and will she encounter true love?

Readers will enjoy accompanying Violet as she discovers the answers, her calling and her adult self.

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