{Review} This is Tomorrow @Leavittnovelist

In 1956, when divorced, working-mom Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a Boston suburb, the neighborhood is 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 era of the Cold War, bomb scares, and paranoia seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son. Lewis never recovers from the disappearance of his childhood friend. By the time he reaches his twenties, he's living a directionless life, a failure in love, estranged from his mother. Rose is now a schoolteacher in another city, watching over children as she was never able to watch over her own brother. Ava is building a new life for herself in a new decade. When the mystery of Jimmy's disappearance is unexpectedly solved, all three must try to reclaim what they have lost.

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About the Author

Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You (Algonquin Books), which was on the Best Books of 2011 Lists from the San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks and Kirkus Reviews. It was also a Costco Pennie's Pick. Her 10th novel IS IT TOMORROW will be published by Algonquin in May 2013.

The winner of a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant, a second prize winner in Goldenberg Fiction Prize, A Sundance Screenwriting Lab Finalist, a Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellowship Finalist and a National Magazine Award Nominee, Leavitt is a senior writing instructor at UCLA and Stanford online and a freelance manuscript consultant. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Psychology Today, Salon,More, and more.
She has been featured on The Today Show and profiled in the New York Times."

You can reach her through www.carolineleavitt.com.

This was a very well written book!  I felt the helplessness and loneliness of Ava right away and she really became my fav character! I loved that the ending was more open as I have always said that the future is what you  make of it. I really enjoyed this book as it was inspiring and a real page turner. I really felt like I had been transported back in time!  I couldnt imagine myself living in that time frame.  When divorce was a no no!  With spies, and the cold war. 

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

"Thanks to the publisher or author for sending me this copy!"

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