(Included here are the first two chapters of Natalie Paris’s Tomorrow Ye Will Get Your Pay. Visit PPL Special Collections to read it at the library.)
NATALIE PARIS
TOMORROW
YE
WILL
GET
YOUR
PAY
This novel was written for the Providence Public Library’s 2023/2024 Creative Fellowship Program, supported by the generosity of the staff and the resources provided by the Nicholson Whaling Collection.
Harpoon illustration adapted from NOAA’s Historic Fisheries Collection; all other illustrations by the author. Cover marbling provided by the Boston Public Library and the Internet Archive.
Written in Fall River, Massachusetts.
2024.
It’s easier for a camel to slide through the eye of a needle
Than to find a whale who hides at the bottom of the ocean.
It’s easier to sail around the world in a coffee cup
Than to see a whale when he comes rising up.
“Pieces and Parts”
Laurie Anderson
