Pages: 416
Genre: Literary Fiction
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
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.
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Gabrielle Zevin has done a great job of exploring friendship and the fragility of relationships. Following Sam and Sadie from childhood into adulthood allows you to connect with them as their friendship matures, changes, and shifts. Platonic friendship is a beautiful thing, and Zevin explored the nuances of a long-term friendship. Although both characters work in creating video games, you don’t have to play video games to appreciate this novel. Loved it!