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To publish new stories and books of photography that might otherwise go unpublished, with a special focus on projects from or about Philadelphia.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.
Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News evokes 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.
