In the summer of 1932, Americans are coming to realize that the financial crash of 1929 was only the beginning of hard times.
Set against a backdrop of true historical events, In All Good Faith tells a story of two women\'s unlikely success during the Great Depression..
Dorrit\'s and May\'s lives intersect, and their fates will intertwine in ways that neither could have imagined or expected.
Along the way she redefines her faith, learning both self-sufficiency and how to accept help.
When Dorrit accompanies her father to Washington, DC, in the summer of 1932 to camp out and march with twenty thousand veterans intending to petition President Hoover for early payment of war bonuses, she begins an odyssey that will both traumatize and strengthen her.
The library holds answers to both Dorrit\'s exploration of Faith and her quest to understand and manage her anxiety.
Attempting to understand what limits her, she seeks inspiration in Nancy Drew mysteries and finds solace at the Boston Public Library, writing fairy stories for children.
Dorrit is reclusive, held back by the anxiety attacks that have plagued her since childhood.
Having recently lost her mother, sixteen-year-old Dorrit Sykes questions the religious doctrine she was raised in.
In a cold-water West End Boston tenement the fractured Sykes family scrapes by on an itinerant mechanic\'s wages and home sewing.
May finds herself juggling her marriage with a tempting opportunity to revamp the family business to adapt to changing times.
She struggles to keep her family farm and market afloat through the economic downturn.
May Marshall has returned from Paris to settle at her family home in rural Keswick, Virginia.
In the summer of 1932, Americans are coming to realize that the financial crash of 1929 was only the beginning of hard times