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Is This Tomorrow

A Novel

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By Caroline Leavitt

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This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around May 7, 2013. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.

Leavitt’s new novel, Days of Wonder, is coming April 23, 2024. Pre-order now!

In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors 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 throes of Cold War paranoia—seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son.

Years later, when Lewis and Rose reunite to untangle the final pieces of the tragic puzzle, they must decide: Should you tell the truth even if it hurts those you love, or should some secrets remain buried?

  • “Riveting.”/I>Vanity Fair
    "An insightful parable about a 'complicated and uncertain era.'" --The Week 


    "An arresting portrait of bygone America" --San Francisco Chronicle


    “[T]aut and resonant mystery.”—Barnes Noble Review


    “Leavitt is a lovely writer and here she tells an absorbing story.”—New York Daily News

    "Not only is [Leavitt] an incredibly accomplished novelist, she's also a crackerjack human being."/I>The Huffington Post

    "Leavitt has a way of crafting the loveliest novels out of tragedy ... It's her examination of loss, grief, and disappointment that will engross readers."/I>Booklist

    "This tale of domestic suspense builds to a shocking climax and will appeal to anyone immersed in suburban lore."
    Library Journal

On Sale
May 7, 2013
Page Count
384 pages
Publisher
Algonquin Books
ISBN-13
9781616200541

Caroline Leavitt

Caroline Leavitt

About the Author

Caroline Leavitt is the award-winning author of twelve novels, including the New York Times bestseller Pictures of You and Is This Tomorrow. A book critic for People magazine, her essays, articles and stories have been included in New York magazine, “Modern Love” in the New York Times, Salon, and The Daily Beast, among others. The recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Award for Fiction and a Sundance Screenwriters Lab finalist, she is also the co-founder of A Mighty Blaze.

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