Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is the newest work by best-selling author Gabrielle Zevin surrounding two friends--often in love but never lovers, and their journey in video game design, success, tragedy, loss, love, and a certain kind of immortality in media. In this book, Sam Masur and Sadie Green, who were close friends as children, reconnect and create their first blockbuster video game, Ichigo. It becomes an overnight success and thrusts them into the public eye. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, rich, and successful but this doesn’t protect them from their own problems, both physical and emotional. Spanning thirty years, from Massachusetts to California, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a intricate and beautiful novel that covers disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and the human need to connect. It’s a love story, but it’s not one you’ve seen before.

This book will leave you upset that it’s over, hopeful for the future, nostalgic for things you never knew, and thinking about it for weeks after you finish it. Zevin’s layered style of writing is fascinating to read and the switch between perspectives allows her to show the characters flawed personalities to their full extent. Sadie and Sam’s relationship dynamic is full of complicated love, jealousy, and misunderstandings. They’re both incredibly frustrating and perfectly easy to love. The way the book blends reality and the virtual worlds within the story together is effortless and flows perfectly with the rest of the story. 

One of my favorite parts of the book is that a previous knowledge of video games or the gaming industry is not needed to understand the work Sam and Sadie are doing throughout the novel, but an interest in the topic definitely makes the book more enjoyable. This is a well-written, complex, and thought-provoking novel. The characters have incredible depth and the story often felt so real that I felt genuinely devastated for the things they were dealing with. This is a book that is going to stick with me for a long time.