‘Kephart distills the precarious nature of life bracketed by the dual tragedies of that era with palpable humanity, aching depth, and timeless understanding.’
— Booklist, Starred Review (Carol Haggas)
‘staggeringly beautiful’
— Small Press Picks (Beth Castrodale)
Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News evokes 1918 Philadelphia, a city of war and racism, women'''s rights and women’s work, a bloody race riot and a flu that will prove to be more deadly than the war. It introduces Peggy Finley, a character inspired by Kephart’s own mysterious grandmother. Smart, Peggy has ambitions. In love, she has a future. But when the draft sweeps through the city and ensnares the boy she loves and when there is simply not enough to go around, Peggy takes on employment as a doffer at the brand-new Fleisher yarn factory, entering a community of other spirited young women determined to make a difference in a world beyond their control.
Ultimately, Tomorrow asks this question: How do the stories we imagine become the truths we won’t forget? It offers history as commentary on the world we live in now.
Beth Kephart, a National Book Award finalist, is a paper artist and the author of nearly forty books in multiple genres, including such Philadelphia-centric books as Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River and My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera. Find her on Substack, at The Hush and the Howl.
— Booklist, Starred Review (Carol Haggas)
‘staggeringly beautiful’
— Small Press Picks (Beth Castrodale)
Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News evokes 1918 Philadelphia, a city of war and racism, women'''s rights and women’s work, a bloody race riot and a flu that will prove to be more deadly than the war. It introduces Peggy Finley, a character inspired by Kephart’s own mysterious grandmother. Smart, Peggy has ambitions. In love, she has a future. But when the draft sweeps through the city and ensnares the boy she loves and when there is simply not enough to go around, Peggy takes on employment as a doffer at the brand-new Fleisher yarn factory, entering a community of other spirited young women determined to make a difference in a world beyond their control.
Ultimately, Tomorrow asks this question: How do the stories we imagine become the truths we won’t forget? It offers history as commentary on the world we live in now.
Beth Kephart, a National Book Award finalist, is a paper artist and the author of nearly forty books in multiple genres, including such Philadelphia-centric books as Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River and My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera. Find her on Substack, at The Hush and the Howl.
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