This Time Tomorrow: A Novel

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 its 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 Anas 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 cant move out of her fathers 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 wont 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 Californias working class and its struggles for happiness.