Chapter One Hundred Forty-Two: Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

With this post, I will finally be caught up with my backlog of blog posts and my next post will not happen until I've finished the book I'm working on now!  But I'm getting ahead of myself--for now, I want to write about Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots by Jessica Soffer.  I found this book while wandering at random through the local library, trying to find something that caught my interest.  I was intrigued by the title, which I found rather mysterious, and even though the subject-matter seemed a bit darker than I wanted, I was snared by the narrative voice of one of the main characters (the narration switches between them) and decided I'd give this book a go.  On the whole, I'm glad I read it, even though it was a bit dark.  Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots tells the story of a teenage girl and an older woman who meet at just the right time.  The girl, Lorca (like the poet) is trying to avoid being sent to boarding school by her distant mother after she's kicked out of public school for cutting herself.  The woman, Victoria, is trying to deal with the death of her husband, who had been the center of her life for years.  Victoria and Lorca are brought together by cooking, and it's the story of their separate struggles and their newfound relationship.  It's not as corny as I'm afraid I'm making it sound, but neither is it unduly edgy.  I was absorbed into this story and couldn't let go until I got to the end!