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# Is This Tomorrow: A Novel

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Review: A good read. Reading about racial and religious bias in the 50's was an eye opener.The story is well written and I found myself very involved with the different characters especially Ava. I found the whole story very evocative and was kept guessing what had happened to young Jimmy right to the end.
Review: A decent read, the author has potential. With some tightening up on errors and flaws it could be a five star novel. A good story line and interesting plot. However, I'm afraid the author doesn't quite reach down deep enough to flesh out real live characters. The voices sound too much alike, there is no distinction. I would have thought this was an early draft of a novel, certainly one without crucial edits, prior to publication. Anachronisms like, "We're not on the same page," and other such lines were not around in 1956. Many of her metaphors come off as juvenile and unbelievable from an adult character. The leading questions from the "teacher" at the end of the book sound like questions for an 8th grade class, they should not be included for the general audience. I did enjoy the story, but wish there were more finesse in the editing. And the ending? Not satisfying. At the very least ditch the last sentence, it serves no purpose. I read the author's justification for why she leaves her stories hanging, and the fill-in-the-blank, make up your own ending, needs a much stronger character development to be believable for the reader.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (25) |
| Dimensions  | 14.1 x 3.05 x 20.96 cm |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 1616200545 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1616200541 |
| Item weight  | 354 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 384 pages |
| Publication date  | 7 May 2013 |
| Publisher  | Algonquin Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by E***E on 1 August 2013*

A good read. Reading about racial and religious bias in the 50's was an eye opener.The story is well written and I found myself very involved with the different characters especially Ava. I found the whole story very evocative and was kept guessing what had happened to young Jimmy right to the end.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by A***S on 29 May 2013*

A decent read, the author has potential. With some tightening up on errors and flaws it could be a five star novel. A good story line and interesting plot. However, I'm afraid the author doesn't quite reach down deep enough to flesh out real live characters. The voices sound too much alike, there is no distinction. I would have thought this was an early draft of a novel, certainly one without crucial edits, prior to publication. Anachronisms like, "We're not on the same page," and other such lines were not around in 1956. Many of her metaphors come off as juvenile and unbelievable from an adult character. The leading questions from the "teacher" at the end of the book sound like questions for an 8th grade class, they should not be included for the general audience. I did enjoy the story, but wish there were more finesse in the editing. And the ending? Not satisfying. At the very least ditch the last sentence, it serves no purpose. I read the author's justification for why she leaves her stories hanging, and the fill-in-the-blank, make up your own ending, needs a much stronger character development to be believable for the reader.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by F***D on 1 June 2013*

Why do we read? For love, families, relationships, heartbreak, historical lessons, feeling as if we've been there too? IS THIS TOMORROW by Caroline Leavitt masterfully and powerfully takes us to a world that never was even though it is entrenched in our common mythology. Ava moves her son, Lewis, to the suburbs in the 1950s. She rents a house in a "perfect" neighborhood to provide him with safety and friends. The neighborhood teems with children. But Ava is immediately an outsider: she's too pretty, she has curves, the husbands dance too closely with her, she has a job outside the home because she is a single DIVORCED parent. There is a reason DANGER and DIVORCE both start with D. Now add that she's (don't say it too loud), um, Jewish. Her son Lewis is a loner because Ava is his mother, because he's too smart, and his teachers wish he wouldn't ask so many questions. Like Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, he and Ava are scolded for his reading too well in the early grades. Lewis and his mom make friends with the kids, Rose and Jimmy, from across the street. Then one day Jimmy disappears. The neighborhood draws together at first to find the culprit,to destroy the danger. Then they drift apart in hopelessness and change. But people still look at Ava funny, as if she brought this evil down upon them. Decades pass. We learn more about the hopes and dreams of Ava, Rose, Lewis. We are led to reconsider how Jimmy disappeared as new clues emerge. But at the heart of the story, we want to see how and if Ava, Lewis, and Rose can make happiness and peace in an imperfect world called reality. There is no perfect place. Life is a rocky road. IS THIS TOMORROW revisits the iconic "peaceful" fifties and the turbulent sixties with love and an eye toward truth. Leavitt asks her reader to take off those rose-colored glasses about the "old days" to see what life was like behind the white picket fences. Ozzie and Harriet, the Cleavers, and Father Knows Best stereotyped the American household on television. Leavitt goes beyond pie in the sky to give us a taste of bitter with the sweet.

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