Is This Tomorrow: A NovelIn 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. |
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Part Two 1963 | 159 |
Acknowledgments | 351 |
Readers Guide | 353 |
About Caroline Leavitt | 361 |
Algonquin Books Blog | 362 |
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