TURSULOWE
PRESS
Tursulowe Press was founded
with three goals in mind:
To publish new stories and books of photography that might otherwise go unpublished, with a special focus on projects from or about Philadelphia.
To promote and sustain the work of Edith Wharton by republishing her works, whether well-known or not, and by publishing special projects that bring her genius to light.
To get books into the hands of people who need them in schools, shelters, prisons, hospitals or homes through our not-for-profit, Read for Need.
Tursulowe Press in Philadelphia publishes works of fiction, photography books and prints, and is the home of the Edith Wharton Workshop. Our not-for-profit, Read for Need, gathers and transports books from those who don’t need them to those who do. The press’s goal is to make beautiful, worthy books and to work towards a future in which reading material ends up in people’s hands and not the trash. We give away one rescued book for every book we sell.
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Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News yields 1918 Philadelphia, a city of war and racism, women’s rights and women’s work, the ferocious paralysis of a bloody race riot, and a flu that will prove to be more deadly than the war. It introduces sixteen- year old Peggy Finley, a character inspired by Kephart’s own mysterious grandmother. Smart, Peggy has ambitions. In love, she has a future. But when the draft sweeps through the city and ensnares the boy she loves, when her best friend, a German American, is attacked for the crime of being herself, when there is simply not enough to go around, Peggy takes on employment as a doffer at the brand-new Fleisher yarn factory, entering a community of other spirited young women determined to make a difference in a world beyond their control.
Ultimately, Tomorrow asks this question: How do the stories we imagine become the truths we won’t forget? It offers history as commentary on the world we live in now.
Beth Kephart is a National Book Award finalist, a Pew Fellowships in the Arts grant winner, a National Endowment for the Arts grant winner, and the author of nearly forty books in multiple genres. An award-winning teacher and poet, she is a widely published essayist, a paper artist, and the author of many Philadelphia-centric books, including Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River. Most recently she is the author of Wife | Daughter | Self: A Memoir in Essays and My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera. Find her on Substack, at The Hush and the Howl and at bethkephartbooks.com.
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A Recent Release from Fanlight Books:
Love, murder – and soup
What more could you ask for?
Well, … how about a gripping international murder mystery set amid Haiti’s worst security crisis in a century?
Haiti, Love and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou foreshadows the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. It blends history, culture, religion and superstition in a suspenseful new novel about a loyal friend on a quest for justice and the tender promise of second-chance love.
This well-received thriller by two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist Michael Matza unfolds inside the turmoil plaguing Haiti, where the rule of gangs has supplanted the rule of law.
“Journalists are often cautioned not to write novels,” says Haitian Times founder Garry Pierre-Pierre. “I’m glad that Matza, a conjurer of convincing details, did not heed the warning. … Brilliantly captures Haiti’s beauty, elegance and gloom.”
And from Greg Myre, of NPR: “Takes Haiti’s grit, pain and sorrow and weaves … a compelling murder mystery.”
To purchase please go to www.michaelmatza.com
A Special Project:
This winter, we were thrilled to play a part in bringing this beautiful book into the world.
"The Neighborhood Garden was created by Ben Lackey and Michele Engelbert after they joined and fell in love with Corinthian Gardens in Fairmount, Philadelphia. As the two enjoyed the urban green space and grew vegetables and flowers in their own plot, it became clear to them that this was not your average community garden. Everyone is welcome. New members are greeted with open arms and the public is encouraged to enjoy the natural beauty that covers the wedge-shaped piece of land cut from a city block. Michele and Ben soon felt at home in this little slice of solace in the busy city."
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