Marol Schalesky tackles a subject close to my heart-infertility. Watching and praying with my sister through her years of infertility, I saw first hand the emotional roller coaster that is experienced.
In the book If Tomorrow Never Comes, Schalesky tackles the issue of infertility – something that she has experienced in her own life.
Childhood sweethearts Kinna and Jimmy Henley had simple dreams-marriage, children, a house by the sea…everything they needed for happily ever after. What they didn’t plan on was years of infertility, stealing those dreams, crushing their hopes.
Now, all that’s left is the memory of young love, and the desperate need for a child to erase the pain. Until…
Kinna rescues an elderly woman from the sea, and the threads of the past, present, and future weave together to reveal the wonder of one final hope. One final chance to follow not their dreams, but God’s plan.
Can they embrace the redemptive power of love before it’s too late? Or will their love be washed away like the castles they once built upon the sand? The past whispers to the present. And the future shivers. What if tomorrow never comes?
One thing I know everyone deals with the heartbreak of infertility differently, similar to how everyone grieves differently. So even though I did not see similarities between Kinna and what my sister went through that does not mean that it was not a good book. Just different. I think Marlo Schalesky wants reader to not like Kinna at first, possibly so we can feel the emotions she is struggling with. Once Thea enters the picture we travel with Kinna, the journey that some dreams are meant to be let go. But don’t think you have the story figured out because Marlo Schalesky takes you on some twists and turns. You will want to read until the end to see if there actually is a “happily ever after” between Kinna and Jimmy.
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Marlo Schalesky is the author of several books, including Beyond the Night and Empty Womb, Aching Heart. A graduate of Stanford University, Marlo also has a masters of theology with an emphasis in biblical studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. Married over twenty years, she lives with her husband, Bryan, and their five children in California.
