Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin – 416 pages
ARC from Knopf and Netgalley for an honest review
Book Blurb:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by 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 is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that 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. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.
My Review: 4.5 stars
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is one of the most unique books I’ve ever read. Here’s the thing, I don’t game, it’s not my thing. The closest thing I’ve done to gaming is to ask (yell at) my son to get off it and do his homework, albeit many moons ago. I do understand the appeal and even the addiction of games because they offer you the opportunity to try again, do better and get another chance at success.
Obviously, you now know the book is about gaming, but at its crux it’s about friendship, love and connection. It’s about pain, disability, healing, growing apart and together again, building something as a team, loss and heartbreak.
I was completely engrossed in this book. The characters were fleshed out and we readers got to watch their development as the book went on. I know some readers may get stuck behind the tediousness of the gaming in certain scenes, but I urge to you to move past it. Sadie, Sam and Marx will stick with you, long after you’ve finished.
Zevin has created an outstanding work of fiction. It’s entirely different than her best-selling The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry or Young Jane Young. The varied breadth of her work in both her YA and adult fiction is astounding and should be commended. All her books are innovative and fresh.
Quotes I liked:
What is a game? Marx said. “It’s tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption.”
“They had the rare kind of friendship that allowed for a great deal of privacy within it.”
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