Finding Grace & Grit tells the stories of two women living a century apart. Meredith, a new doctoral candidate, struggles to learn the ropes of academia and write her dissertation on Grace King, a southern author—especially while her father faces trial for rape, her mother runs off with a new boyfriend, and her husband faces combat trauma. Meanwhile, in her own time, Grace King survives the Civil War and grows into a strong writer—until her own family’s darkness threatens to destroy her sense of self and identity. As they struggle to define themselves one hundred years apart, Meredith and Grace seek to carve daringly different futures than the one society had prescribed. Finding Grace and Grit shows the darkness women often face as well as their resolve to overcome it.