A review by larksnest
Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith

3.0

Besides a few moments which were truly too sexist or just too violent for me, this was an interesting read. Betty Smith is writing a fictional version of her own experiences - as a young bride, a young mother, living on a mid-western college campus and pinching pennies to make ends meet. She's descriptive enough as to make it clear to the reader what it was like, being a young, white, married 18 year old woman in the year 1928. Definitely painted a picture.