You can order Is This Tomorrow (May 2013) at AMAZON, BARNES & NOBLE, INDIEBOUND and POWELL’S. Available to order in e-book form at AMAZON, BARNES & NOBLE, and APPLE.
In 1956, when divorced working-mom Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a Boston suburb, the neighborhood is less than welcoming.
Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood – in the era of the Cold War, bomb scares, and paranoia – seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son.
Lewis never recovers from the disappearance of his childhood friend. By the time he reaches his twenties, he’s living a directionless life, a failure in love, estranged from his mother. Rose is now a schoolteacher in another city, watching over children as she was never able to watch over her own brother. Ava is building a new life for herself in a new decade. When the mystery of Jimmy’s disappearance is unexpectedly solved, all three must try to reclaim what they have lost.
“With wit and a perfect eye into the human heart, Caroline Leavitt has given us a truly unique story of love, loyalty, loss, betrayal, secrets, healing – an d a resolution you’ll never see coming. It’s everything you want in a novel.” - Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees
Caroline Leavitt is the author of nine novels, including the New York Times bestseller Pictures of You. A book critic for the Boston Globe and People, Leavitt is a senior writing instructor at UCLA online.
