Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel

Gabrielle Zevin

National Geographic Books, Jul 5, 2022 - Fiction - 416 pages

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A JIMMY FALLON BOOK CLUB PICK

In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

"Utterly brilliant. In this sweeping, gorgeously written novel, Gabrielle Zevin charts the beauty, tenacity, and fragility of human love and creativity. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is one of the best books I've ever read." —John Green

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. They borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo: a game where players can escape the confines of a body and the betrayals of a heart, and where death means nothing more than a chance to restart and play again. This is the story of the perfect worlds Sam and Sadie build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy.

Spanning over thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, games as artform, technology and the human experience, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

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LibraryThing Review

User Review  - capewood - LibraryThing

2023 book #21. 2022. 2 kids, Sadie and Sam bond over their love of video games in the early '90 and go on to be successful video game developers. This is their story over a 30-yr span from close partnership to estrangement and back. One of the best books I've read in years.

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User Review  - DrApple - LibraryThing

I didn't think I would like this book since it revolves around digital games, but I loved it. The characters are so real and so intelligent that I fell in love. Sam and Sadie meet as children, and ...

About the author

GABRIELLE ZEVIN is an internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed author whose books have been translated into thirty-eight languages. Her eighth novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, spent several months on the New York Times bestseller list, was a USA Today bestseller, and has been a bestseller all around the world. She has also written books for children and young adults, including the award-winning Elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
• Author: Gabrielle Zevin
• Publisher: National Geographic Books, 2022
• ISBN: 0735243344, 9780735243347
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Romance / Contemporary