Angol
The story takes place from the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties, in Michigan and Ohio. Agnes May, 15-year-old runaway from Arkansas, is out on the road. In Kentucky, one of her rides is a vacationing couple from Niles, Michigan, who take her home, eventually adopting her. Under her new mom's tutelage, she finishes growing into a self-determined woman, and goes to work in her adoptive dad's machine shop, where a keen aptitude for things mechanical emerges and develops. Moving to a nearby larger company, she quickly rises-a woman in a man's world. At corporate headquarters in Sandusky, OH, she thrives, for the next decade turning tough challenges into accomplishments-and into her employer's profits. High achievements lead to an opportunity to enter the whole new world of wealth, prestige, and social status. But she slowly comes to realize that she is in love with a gruff man she's worked with over the years--a man who clearly has no interest in a world of affectation and pretense. Meanwhile, the family she ran away from all those years ago vividly comes back into her life further complicating her struggle to find the personal acumen to establish who Agnes May really is.
