Until That Good Day is a stunning debut novel loosely based on the Marjorie Kemper's family history. Set in Louisiana in the 1930's, the story revolves around John Washington, a successful traveling salesman who "passes" in the white community. John's young daughter Vivien is a lulu of an unreliable narrator with charm to spare. Profoundly moving as well as comical and sweet, this is a haunting story with dynamite characters from a literary-prize-winning author.

Marjorie Kemper is the winner of the Deep South Writer's Conference Burden Award, an O. Henry Prize Stories 2003, and has been a finalist in the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Contest. Her short fiction has been published by The Atlantic Monthly and other literary magazines. She lives in Glendale, California.