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A New York Times and USA Today bestseller "Riveting-" Vanity Fair HotType "Leavitt builds tremendous suspense whileremaining as concerned with character as she is with plot." The Week "An arresting portrait of bygone America."u2028SkipHorack, The San Francisco Chronicle "A page-turning heartbreaker."u2028KitReed, The Miami Herald "Guaranteed to tantalize this bestselling author's avid readership." The Washington Post "xa0"Aneminently satisfying read."u2028Kathryn Lang, TheBoston Globe "More shocking than a conspiracytheory." New Jersey Monthly "Leavitt's 10th novel is a triumph. Thestory at times brings to mind Dennis Lehane's masterful Mystic River. Thoughall of Leavitt's novels have been superb and highly acclaimed, it strikes methat Is This Tomorrow is her best book yet."u2028Monica Stark, January Magazine "It begs to be said out Loud: Leavitt is anAmerican Author of great consequence who meticulously crafts stories about realpeople who find themselves at a crossroads."u2028Holy Cara Price, PopMatters "Fans of heartfelt and emotionally richfiction have been devouring the impassioned works of Leavitt. xa0A taut and resonant mystery, whichhas already garnered critical acclaim and a devoted readership'spraise." The Barnes and Noble Revie "Surprising, unexpected plot twists, anddramatic."xa0u2028Cheryl Knocker McKeon, Book Passage, San Francisco, for ShelfAwareness "Caroline Leavitt is an amazingly skilledwriter."u2028HillaryDaninhirsch, Historical Novel Review "Anxa0intimate meditation on time, loss and destiny."u2028Stewart O'Nan, authorof Emily, Alone and The Odds Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow, which was also a May Indie Pick, a National Women's Book Association Great Group Reads, an Audiofile Earphone's Award winner, A San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick, and a Jewish Book Council Book Pick. Her 9th novel Pictures of You,was also a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, and was a Costco Pennie's Pick and was on the Best Books of 2011 lists from the San Francisco Chronicle, the Providence Journal, Bookmarks Magazine and Kirkus Reviews. Her essays and stories have been included in New York magazine, Modern Love in the Sunday New York Time s, Psychology Today , More , Parenting , Redbook , and Salon . She's a book reviewer for People , The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and a writing instructor at UCLA and Stanford online, and she works with private clients. From Booklist Leavitt has a way of crafting the loveliest novels out of tragedy. Like its predecessor, Pictures of You (2011), her latest work, set mainly in the 1950s, turns on a single fateful incident: the disappearance of 12-year-old Jimmy Rearson. Though Leavitt eventually reveals what happened to Jimmy, in a closure that provides little in the way of solace, it’s her examination of loss, grief, and disappointment that will engross readers. Lewis, Jimmy’s best friend, is already an angry loner, a child of divorce in a time and place where his mother, Ava, is viewed as a challenge to the natural order. Without Jimmy as a tether, he drifts aimlessly into adulthood. Rose, Jimmy’s sister, is paralyzed by survivor’s guilt: to move on without her brother feels tantamount to betrayal. The aching loneliness of these two is palpable. But Leavitt’s most captivating creation is the mercurial Ava, an accidental trailblazer who refuses to deny her dreams. It is Ava, ultimately, who points the way forward, showing there’s no shame in putting ghosts to rest. --Patty Wetli --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "When someone disappears, what happens to the people who are left behind? This is the central, heartbreaking question in Caroline Leavitt's exquisite new book. With characters so real they feel technicolor, a plot that beats like a racing pulse, and prose so lovely that sometimes I found myself repeating the words out loud, Is This Tomorrow is the novel you need to read today." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller and Lone Wolf ( Jodi Picoult ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the Inside Flap A New York Times and USA Today bestseller. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Is This Tomorrow is a May Indie Next PickIs This Tomorrow is a New York Times bestseller and also a USA Today bestseller --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "From the lockstep '50s into the do-your-own-thing '60s, Caroline Leavitt follows her cast of lonely characters as they grapple with the sorrowful mystery of a missing child. 'Are any of our children safe?' one asks, and of course the answer is no, no one is. Like Mona Simpson's Off Keck Road,xa0Is This Tomorrow is an intimate meditation on time, loss and destiny."Stewart O'Nan, author of Emily, Alone and The Odds "In the spirit of Richard Yates' novel Revolutionary Road, Caroline Leavitt peels back the neat façade of suburban life in the 1950s to uncover the ways in which the demands of conformity leave a trail of loneliness and pain for those who lie outside its bounds. Ava Lark, the divorced Jewish mother of twelve-year-old Lewis, struggles against the judgment of neighbors as she and her son befriend the only other fatherless children around, Jimmy and Rose. Jimmy's sudden, unexplained disappearance taps into every parent's worst nightmare. Blending taut suspense with deeply moving portrayals of fierce parental love, childhood friendships and first crushes, Leavitt has created a novel with haunting characters and much to say about how we move through tragedy. "Libby Cowles, Maria's Bookshop"When someone disappears, what happens to the people who are left behind? This is the central, heartbreaking question in Caroline Leavitt's exquisite new book. With characters so real they feel technicolor, a plot that beats like a racing pulse, and prose so lovely that sometimes I found myself repeating the words out loud,xa0Is This Tomorrow is the novel you need to read today."Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller and Lone Wolf "A beautiful free-spirited divorcee is shunned by her neighbors. A boy from that neighborhood goes missing. This is the engine that drives Leavitt's latest story, a page turner from first to last. I loved the way Leavitt's Mad Men-like examination of shifting American values dovetails with her vivid tale of heartbreak and hope. An enthusiastic thumbs-up from this grateful reader."Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, She's Come Undone "Leavitt's first historical novel is a grand slam. Her attention to detail and dialogue are remarkable. The ratcheting tension as an Eisenhower era neighorhood searches for a missing boy-gripping. The resolution of the mystery years later, both heartbreaking and hopeful. I so admire Leavitt's ability to pull you into the story, tie you up, and leave you guessing, until she masterfully guides you through the twists and turns towards, home. "xa0Lesley Kagan, author of Good Graces "Leavitt asks the big, equivocal questions: What does it mean to be a mother, a family? What is the nature of identity? The answers will provoke you, frustrate you, rearrange your heart."Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and What We Saw At Night "An expertly rendered novel that poignantly chronicles the aftermath of a family's worst nightmare and its far-reaching devastation. At once haunting and elegant,xa0Is This Tomorrowxa0will leave the reader shattered and hopeful right up to the shocking end."xa0Heather Gudenkauf, author of The Weight of Silence "Is This Tomorrowxa0is the gripping tale of a boy gone missing in 1950s suburbs and of of those whose lives are enveloped, tangled and changed by the mystery: the missing boy's sister, his best friend, and the divorced working mom who can't fit into the neighborhood. With wit and a perfect eye into the human heart, Leavitt has given us a truly unique story of love, loyalty, loss, betrayal, secrets, healing--and a resolution you'll never see coming. It's everything you want in a novel."xa0Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees "In her dynamic follow-up toxa0Pictures of You,xa0Leavitt has given us that rare and irresistible combination of tenderly crafted, richly layered and utterly believable characters I found myself caring about by page ten--and a crackling suspense story that just about explodes off the page. Call it a literary thriller:xa0Is This Tomorrowxa0reveals a world you will want to linger in, and secrets you'll stay up late to untangle. Reading this story is a memorable and moving journey and one that (for those who don't already love her work) reveals Leavitt to be a brave and humane writer who also understands what keeps us turning the pages."Joyce Maynard, author of The Good Daughters and Labor Day "When a 12-year-old boy disappears from his suburban Boston neighborhood, ripples spread far and wide. It's the rigid 1950's and a tight knit community comes undone. The mystery is set up early in the novel, so there is plenty of time to get involved and invested in characters you care about, or are distrustful of, or ones whose motives you question. The overwhelming arc of the story is for these characters you come to feel protective of to get beyond the tragedy. How can you get to tomorrow when time is forever stuck on one tragic day? You want them to find their tomorrows. And thanks to great writing, I was pulling for them all the way."Candace Purdom, Anderson's Bookshop" Caroline Leavitt writes and weaves like poetry into the lives of this book."Amal Chaaban, RagMag Magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Read more
Features & Highlights
- 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?
