Tomorrow Paperback – Import, 3 December 2018

Merilyn unwraps this story through three disparate, local characters introduced without references to each other. It’s an intriguing literary device and she handles it well. As a reader gathers clever clues to how the misfits connect inside the town’s dark dynamics, hints of a much larger mystery appear: a pandemic without a known cause has culled the population and left a large percentage of the still-standing infertile.Page after page, you think you’ve figured out how the characters will connect to solve the mystery of the pandemic. Believe me, you haven’t unless you are the Sherlock Holmes of literary puzzles. Believe me, as well, that you’ll enjoy this one.

This was such an interesting glimpse of a polluted, virus-stricken world from the eyes of a sleepy, little town where everyone still knows each other’s business, and life carries on at the crawling pace despite the state of the world surrounding. And yet the pace of the book is perfect. Merilyn weaves a family mystery, the urgency of a birth in an area with next to no medical care, and the evolution of small town politics, into a great read. Smart, relatable characters. Elegant prose. Loved it all!

I really enjoyed this book. It is understated but kept me flipping pages.