Tomorrow!

Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie

362 Pages

Publisher: Open Road Media

Release Date: March 28, 2014

Fiction, Teens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, 1950s

Henry Conner is the leader of the local Civil Defense Unit and works at the local paper. His son, Chuck, is on leave from the armed forces to his family’s home in Green Prairie. His love interest neighbor, Lenore Bailey, uses a Geiger counter checking for radiation in the Civil Defense Unit.

Mrs. Netta Bailey, Lenore’s mother, wanted so much out of life. She wanted to marry a rich man but after the bank collapse of 1929, her husband lost it all. Now her husband, Beau, has gotten himself into more trouble. Even though he works at a bank, he has been gambling on horse racing. Now he owes $5000 to Jake a loan shark. She had high hopes her daughter, Lenore would marry Kit Sloan, the son of Minerva Sloan, a wealthy business woman. If that happened, it would solve their money problems.

The story is very slow, the characters are somewhat developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. I did like the character of Nora, the young girl who cuts off her braids so she cannot be tied up by them again. At the halfway point, the author is still setting the stage for whatever action is going to happen. I hate to say, but I found the book boring and did not finish it.