Jan and Her Job

"Jan and Her Job" by L. Allen Harker is a story from the early 1900s about a woman named Janet Ross. Janet is on a boat headed to Bombay so she can assist her sick sister, Fay Tancred. The book talks about being responsible, being strong, and how women relate to each other when things get tough. At the start, Janet is traveling to India. She is interesting and watches everything around her, which makes people on the boat curious about her. She's also a bit worried because she doesn't know exactly what she'll find in Bombay, like how sick her sister really is and what her family is going through. As she starts to deal with her new job, Janet thinks about her life before, her family, and why she feels like she needs to help. This gets the reader ready for a story full of feelings as Janet takes care of her sister's family and learns about the tricky parts of their lives.