This Time Tomorrow (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312605025)

Winner of an International Latino Book Award for Best Novel!

Gilbert Gaeta, a forklift operator in a dairy, can barely make payments on the house where he lives with his thirteen-year-old daughter, Ana. When a month of overtime shifts comes his way, he begins to envision a new life, one in which he can save enough money for an engagement ring and finally propose to his girlfriend, Joyce. He works the night shift, exhausted but making good money, and it's looking like his plan will work. Then Ana is chased home from the Laundromat by bullies, and she begins pushing him to buy a washer and dryer. Gilbert tries to stay firm, but when Ana's trouble follows her to school, the pressure mounts to put her first, and delay his future with Joyce.

Joyce, who at thirty-six has never lived on her own, can't move out of her father's traditional Mexican house until she is married. Feeling her life with Gilbert slipping away, she starts to despair. And then one day, standing before her impressive collection of vintage purses, she sees a way to take control of her future. But it won't be easy.

Writing from three distinct and equally moving perspectives, award-winning author Michael Jaime-Becerra tells a story about the painful balance between love and responsibility. An intimate and poignant first novel, This Time Tomorrow casts a new light on Southern California's working class and its struggles for happiness.

Author: Michael Jaime-Becerra
ISBN-10: 0312605021
ISBN-13: 9780312605025
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2010
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.46h x 6.56w x 1.09d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/14/2009 pg. 41
Booklist 02/01/2010 pg. 29
New York Times Book Review 04/11/2010 pg. 17