Learning in early adolescence that the debonair bootlegger-cum-innkeeper is not her biological father, Mia's precocious daughter develops a fierce self-reliance. In the midst of the apprehension and controversy simmering in prewar America, Josie studies to be a nurse and becomes romantically involved, first with a disillusioned cowboy veteran of foreign battlefields, and then with a cultivated refugee surgeon obligated elsewhere. An army nurse remaining...