Until That Good Day

by Marjorie Kemper

Genres: Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Until That Good Day is a stunning debut novel loosely based on the Marjorie Kemper's family history. Set in Louisiana in the 1930's, the story revolves around John Washington, a successful traveling salesman who "passes" in the white community. John's young daughter Vivien is a lulu of an unreliable narrator with charm to spare. Profoundly moving as well as comical and sweet, this is a haunting story with dynamite characters from a literary-prize-winning author.

Release date: July 17, 2003

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Print pages: 320

Sample

The long years that will turn the dross of John Washington's life into the silver cloth of the family myth that I tell here are hidden from him. Until that far-off day, when the myth will take over from him, John regards himself as the sole author of his life. Until that good day, then, he, like the rest of us, will write confidently toward his own ending.

-- from the Prelude to Until That Good Day