Caroline Leavitt | Author

Caroline Leavitt
Deep, moving explorations of the dark heart of family

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Coming soon: IS THIS TOMORROW

Apr.19.2013

Coming soon: IS THIS TOMORROW

Coming May 7th, IS THIS TOMORROW, a May Indie Pick.

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PUBLISHED: May.07.2013

Is This Tomorrow

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...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.25.2011

Pictures Of You

Pictures of You is a literary mystery that asks the question, How do we forgive the unforgivable--or should we? How well do we know the ones we love? On a foggy road, four lives collide: Isabelle, a photographer fleeing her philandering husband who has just gotten his girlfriend pregnant; April, a wife and mother, with a terrible secret; Sam, an asthatic boy with a secret of his...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.24.2005

Girls In Trouble

The emotional price a group of people pay when an open adoption takes a wrong turn.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1993

Into Thin Air

Hours after giving birth, a young woman flees her baby and her husband and slips into a new life, leaving both to rebuild lives for themselves without her. "Tells a riveting story beautifully."New York Daily News "Leavitt has a wonderful insight into interpersonal relationships and writes in a style similar to that of Anne Tyler and Jane Smiley, capturing the rich complexities...

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Coming Back To Me

A new father struggles to care for his mysteriously ill wife, calling on her estranged sister for help. "Leavitt's devotion to her characters, and to a surprising..world view, gives the story a certain gravity."The New Yorker

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PUBLISHED: May.01.1995

Living Other Lives

When a young man dies accidentally, his fiance must grapple with his contentious teenaged daughter. "Caroline Leavitt's sixth novel showcases her ability to create believable characters who can behave badly without forfeiting the reader's sympathy. Living Other Lives dips in and out of its characters' thoughts to reveal confused but basically good people who...

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Caroline's Latest Blogs

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May.03.2013 - 8:08 am

I love Apple! Ibooks is featuring sneak peaks of "eagerly awaited novels" including Is This Tomorrow

We're an all Apple household. My husband and two Macs and an Ipad and an Iphone, I have an Iphone and two Macs, and my son has two Macs. And now the amazing people at Apple have...

Apr.23.2013 - 12:32 pm

Yep, A. S. King won the Los Angeles Book Prize for Ask The Passengers, and she's also hip, cool, generous, and the reason why sh

I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be doing this interview. I think I first met A. S. King at a Backspace conference and we just hit it off. I'm rabid about her work, too,...

Apr.19.2013 - 3:20 pm

Facing the "You're a Failure" voice, reprinted from The Center for Fiction

Facing the “You’re a Failure” Voice Caroline Leavitt on dealing with fear Someone recently asked me in an interview, “How do you obliterate that voice inside of you...

Apr.19.2013 - 3:18 pm

Dzanc rEprint series is bringing out my backlist1

New lives for old books! Thrilled that Dzanc rEprint series is reprinting my backlist! Dzanc Books rEprint is an innovative new publishing venture by the genius Dan...

Comments from Caroline

Dec.20.2008 - 7:04 pm

In response to: Why would such a happy person write such a dark novel?

Jeesh! Don't I wish. I also get a lot of people saying to me, "Why can't you write a movie for Jim Carey?"...

Dec.20.2008 - 9:31 am

In response to: Why would such a happy person write such a dark novel?

Oh my God

I laughed so hard. I think I may just hand people copies of the kids book I wrote and leave it at that. What I don't...

Dec.20.2008 - 9:29 am

In response to: Why would such a happy person write such a dark novel?

Ai y

Jessica, your mother's friends probably would complain, too. It's the rudeness, too, that gets me. I had an ex-...

Sep.07.2008 - 9:58 am

In response to: Book Fundraiser for Obama

THANK YOU!!

Thank all of you who replied to this message! I am so appreciative!

Jun.02.2008 - 9:00 am

In response to: Calling Dr. Toomba

comment, comment

Hi jessica, Belle Yang told me I needed to talk to you because we are at the same stage of writing--starting something...

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NYT Modern Love: My Touchstone and a heart of Gold

Article: Meredith Maran talks about activism, self-doubt, the little engine that could and her extraordinary new novel, A Theory of Small Earthquakes

Article: Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi talk about women in and out of prison and their astonishing book Inside This Place, Not Of it: Narratives From Women's Prisons

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May.07.2013

Is This Tomorrow

Published by Library Journal, Booklist, more

"Ava Lark, a divorced Jewish woman, and her 12-year-old son, Lewis, move into a WASPy 1950s Boston suburb only to be ostracized by their neighbors and sucked into a heart-...

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Video: The Book Trailer for Is This Tomorrow

Video: "$#!+," writers say. Inside The Writers' Studio episode 8.

Video: Book trailer for Pictures of You

About Caroline

Caroline Leavitt's 9th novel, Pictures of You, was published by Algonquin Books in 2011 and is a New York Times bestseller. She is the award-winning author of eight other novels: Meeting Rozzy Halfway, Lifelines, Jealousies, Family, Into Thin Air,...

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