Hear Best-Selling Author Caroline Leavitt Discuss Her New Book at the Library

 Prize-winning author Caroline Leavitt will be at the Main Library at 7:00 pm on Thursday, June 20, to introduce her latest novel Is This Tomorrow. Among Leavitt’s earlier novels are Pictures of You and Girls in Trouble. The Library is one of the venues on her national book tour.

Library patron Ruth Stives, a Leavitt fan, had this to say about the new book:

Is This Tomorrow demonstrates how the skilled writer can breathe life into     characters and persuade the reader to become invested in them and their stories.

 In a 1950’s suburb, life is tough enough for Ava Lark, a newly single, working Jewish mother in a community with trust issues. Influenced by the larger issue of the Cold War, many of Ava’s neighbors are suspicious of anyone who is not like them. Ava’s son Lewis is too smart for his own good. He is misunderstood by teachers, ridiculed by his peers, and grappling with his own conflicts about which of his parents deserves his loyalty. His only friends are neighbors, Jimmy and his sister Rose, who are also fatherless, and they become a tight unit until Jimmy mysteriously disappears.           

If you’d like to read the book before the program, you can pick up a copy for $12 at the Main Library and the Palmer Branch. Leavitt will be signing books, which will also be on sale that evening.

The program will be held in the Catherine Drake Room which is handicapped accessible at the 5^th and Church Sts. Entrance. The Friends of the Library will provide refreshments. Pre-registration for this event is encouraged and can be done by phoning 610-258-2917 ext 310.