In 1927, when she was just eighteen, Annie McGairy ran away from her Brooklyn tenement home to marry Carl, a student working his way through law school in America\'s Middle West. At first their prospects aren\'t very bright. Both Annie\'s mother and Carl\'s are bitterly opposed to the match; Anne is naive and frightened; Carl sometimes falters under the double burden of supporting a wife and keeping up with his studies. Yet their marriage, enriched by Annie\'s infectious enthusiasm for the small pleasures of everyday life, flourishes and grows strong. Joy in the Morning is the story of their first year together. It is a chronicle of growth; the tempering of a marriage and the development of two young personalities. It is a sunlit story, full of tenderness and warmth.