The River's Bend

The River’s Bend is the journey of a small town Wisconsin girl
who reads her way through her bedridden childhood illness during
the Depression; gets “discovered” on the train to California while
visiting the man she loves; detours to post-war New York where she
becomes a successful model; rubs shoulders with the rich, famous
and political including JFK; marries and becomes a typical 1950s
housewife; moves to the suburbs to raise her children in the safety of
Cold-War suburbia, and comes full circle back to Mayville, Wisconsin
where today she runs a charming bed & breakfast.
Hers is a story of relationships: her close and loving bonds
with her grandfather, mother and brother; her lifelong love for her
Mayville sweetheart; her deep friendship with model Gloria Emerson,
her sidekick in New York’s social scene, who eventually becomes a
war correspondent and outspoken critic of the Vietnam War; her
relationship with Jack Kennedy, fresh off the PT boat and a political
neophyte; her husband, her children, her grandchildren.
With an underlying sense of humor, Jayne shares intimate
memories of a life that spans major world upheavals and powerful
underlying social forces, as she navigates her own personal journey. It
is a story that, ultimately, we all relate to: love found, love lost and
love found again.