Sing to Me Tomorrow
Publisher: Atlas Contact
An autobiographical novel about four generations of women
After his parents cut off contact because of the book he wrote about his father, the narrator of Sing to Me Tomorrow goes looking for answers. Why did his mother stay with a man who abused her? The search takes him back four generations to his great-grandmother, Levina, who got pregnant by a man who already had a family. The same thing happened to her daughter and her granddaughter, the narrator’s mother. Is this a coincidence or are these bad choices resonating through successive generations? The result is a novel that is at once grand and intimate. It explores how the family stories that shape us always seem to exist somewhere between myth and reality. Sing to Me Tomorrow reads like a mosaic of longing and betrayal.
Praise:
‘With compassion and admiration, Kuypers draws powerful portraits of women forced to conform to others’ expectations and that transfer their repressed anger to future generations. (…) The Atlas of Everywhere was about love stories. Sing to Me Tomorrow is about people who feel love but don’t know how to deal with that feeling. With Kuypers’ generation, that pattern finally seems to be reversing itself.’ – Trouw
