Is This Tomorrow by Caroline Leavitt

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Setting:  Waltham, Massachusetts

Plot: What does it mean to be an outsider in a community? How do we keep the ones we love safe? in 1950s suburbia, everything is meant to be perfect, even as paranoia about Communism and nuclear bombs winds its way through the supposed paradise. But when divorced, sensual-without-meaning-to-be, Jewish single mother Ava rents a house with her 12-year-old son, Lewis, she struggles to fit in and find her place in the neighborhood. Lewis finds solace with the only other two fatherless kids on the block, his best friends Jimmy and Rose, but when Jimmy vanishes one day, Ava is suddenly suspect and Lewis and Rose’s life will be changed forever. A novel about people trying desperately to uncover secrets about the past–and about themselves.

Here’s what people are saying about Is This Tomorrow?:

• “Riveting-” Vanity Fair Hot Type
• “This is a wise novel about the pain of loss. Leavitt’s is a novel that pulls you in and makes you root for an ostracized mother and her son, feel the inconsolable grief of a mother whose child has vanished, and a sister who never ceases to look for her borther. An eminently satisfying read. Leavitt provides no easy answers about how we can compensate for loss, but she engages our heart.”
  Kathryn Lang, The Boston Globe
• “Leavitt is a lovely writer and here she tells an absorbing story.”
  Sherryl Connelly, The New York Daily News
• “Surprising, unexpected plot twists, and dramatic.”
  Cheryl Knocker McKeon, Book Passage, San Francisco, for Shelf Awareness