New from Catalyst Press: Today is tomorrow by Caroline Kurtz

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The follow-up to her award-winning memoir, A road called down on both sides: Growing up in Ethiopia and America. When Caroline Kurtz and her husband, Mark, begin working with civil war refugees in South Sudan and Kenya, they discover the deep complexities of their work, the consequences of striving for perfection in an imperfect world and, above all, the extraordinary grace to be found in the unlikeliest of places.

By 1996, millions of South Sudanese have been killed, died of starvation, or fled the decades-long civil war ravaging their country. So when the Presbyterian Church in the United States begins recruiting a development team to work with war refugees in the region, Caroline and her husband, Mark, are eager to help. But it’s only months before ghosts from their individual pasts whistle in to disrupt their marriage and their new postings.

Caroline finds relief in teaching and peace work in South Sudan, but the heavy responsibility she now carries for dozens of vulnerable families – coupled with the prevailing ideas of Biblical womanhood that put pressure on her personal life – makes it increasingly clear that Caroline is under-prepared for the high-stakes crisis in which she is now embedded.

Through a number of consequential mistakes and increasingly debilitating self-doubt, Caroline clings to hope that her willingness to stand with the South Sudanese will count for something in the end. A deeply personal examination of South Sudan at war – and a woman at war with herself – Today is tomorrow shines a warm light on the darkest of places.

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