Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel

Gabrielle Zevin

Jul 2022 · Sold by Knopf

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

"Delightful and absorbing." —The New York Times • "Utterly brilliant." —John Green
 
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily

From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.

These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

Ratings and reviews

While I haven't read the whole thing, I have some misgivings. the concept of a friendship that ebbs and flows over a lifetime is kind of fun, but the characters seem shallow. he's a super nerd and kind of a simp, she is.........how to say this? she kinds of ebbs and flows into different personalities, like she can succeed in some things where no one else can, but then gets trapped in something obvious and is too embarrassed to get herself out. while the premise is interesting, it is ultimately about these 2 characters. Everyone else is there to fill space or someone for the main characters to talk to. And the main characters aren't that much fun to read about, I dont really like either of them as neither seemed to have any personality beyond a caricature. I don't think I'll buy this one. The premise isn't enough for me to get over the characters involved.

I really liked this book. I think it’s one of my favorite recent reads. It’s a story about life, friendships, love, and video games! Sam and Sadie meet when they are kids and bond over their love for video games. For the next 30 years, we follow their story as they navigate life with its ups and downs while creating successful and not very successful video games. I loved all the characters (especially beautiful, sweet Marx). All were very well-written and terribly human, as in I oscillated between loving, hating, understanding, and being mad at them. But I gotta admit, at some point, I was a bit tired of the constant misunderstandings between Sadie and Sam (I mostly blame Sadie). But what I loved most about the book was how it takes us through the process of creating a video game in a way that is not alienating for non gamers, but I imagine gamers would get a kick out of it. The author found the perfect way to mix the gaming world and the real world, imo.

Well written, and the developmental process of making a video game was very interesting. I felt like I needed a checklist for social issues.....first one, check. Second, check and so on. That element was tiring. I'm not sure if the author thought Sadie was likable, but I thought she was awful to Sam. Sadie needed to take responsibility for her own choices with Dov and stop blaming Sam.

About the author

GABRIELLE ZEVIN is the New York Times and internationally best-selling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, which won the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award and the Japan Booksellers’ Award among other honors, and Young Jane Young, which won the South­ern Book Prize. Her novels have been translated into thirty-nine languages. She has also written books for young readers, including the award-winning Elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles.