Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News evokes 1918 Philadelphia, a city of war and racism, women’s rights and women’s work, a bloody race riot and a flu that will prove to be more deadly than the war. It introduces 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 and 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 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.