In 1928, Chicago rocks to the rhythm of the Jazz Age, and Prohibition is in full swing. Small-town girl Marjorie Corrigan, visiting the city for the first time, has sworn that coffee’s the strongest drink that will pass her lips. But her quiet, orderly life turns topsy-turvy when she spots her high school sweetheart–presumed killed in the Great War–alive and well in a train station. Suddenly everything is up for grabs.
Although the stranger insists he’s not who she thinks he is, Marjorie becomes obsessed with finding out the truth. To the dismay of her fiance and family, she moves to the city and takes a job at a department store so she can spy on him. Meanwhile, the glittering world of her roommate, Dot, begins to look awfully enticing–especially when the object of her obsession seems to be part of that world. Is it really so terrible to bob her hair and shorten her skirt? To visit a speakeasy? Just for a cup of coffee, of course.
But what about her scruples? What about the successful young doctor to whom she’s engaged, who keeps begging her to come back home where she belongs? And what, exactly, is going on at the store’s loading dock so late at night?
Amid a whirlwind of trials and temptations, Marjorie must make a choice. Will the mystery man prove to be the cream in her coffee–the missing ingredient to the life she yearns for? Or will he leave only bitterness in her heart?
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: You're the Cream in my Coffee Book Author: Jennifer Lamont Leo What do you like about this book:
"Thou art ever with me."
Marjorie Corrigan is certain that she has seen a ghost. Her head knows that her childhood sweetheart, Jack Lund, never came home from the war, but her heart has remained hopeful. Therefore, when she fumbles through a "is-it-really-you" conversation in a Chicago train station, the man is kind, but insistent that she has most certainly been infected with a case of mistaken identity.
It is her love life that has sent Marjorie from her small home town to Chicago in the first place. Her repeated fainting spells whenever her current engagement and impending future with a respectable local doctor is discussed, has resulted in a referral to a specialist; where upon arrival she falls in love with city, impulsively seeks part time employment at a respectable department store, and continues her clandestine surveillance of Mr. Peter Bachmann, whose behavior appears questionable at best and shady at worst.
This delightful debut set in the roaring twenties, where gangsters, prohibition and speakeasys ruled the streets of Chicago; finds a young woman ready to spread her wings just a bit, which turns out to be the best decision she has ever made . . . . . or possibly the second best.
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