Joyce’s Investments

“Why shouldn’t we have Heaven here?” Joyce Lavillotte asks her skeptical lawyer—and means to begin with a factory village, not a prayer.

Newly of age and heir to a great fortune, Joyce refuses the comfortable life Mr. Barrington thinks she ought to want. The Early Glass Works can be sold, her money safely invested, and she could live “like a princess”; instead, she plans to make its bleak settlement a real town, with homes, a school, a library, and a way for people to meet one another’s needs. When even her lawyer doubts a young woman can carry out such an ambitious plan, Joyce stakes her hopes on cooperation—and on the people whose needs have gone unmet. Can she turn her “little town” into a place where no one’s needs go unanswered?

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