Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Outline

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2022) follows Sam and Sadie, two childhood friends who meet again as university students in the 1990s and begin designing video games together. Over three decades, their creative partnership brings success, rivalry, loss, and forgiveness. Gabrielle Zevin’s novel explores friendship, creativity, disability, and the ways games allow people to imagine other lives.

• Sam and Sadie are childhood friends who meet again as university students in the 1990s and start designing video games together.
• Their creative partnership runs for three decades and brings success, rivalry, loss, and forgiveness.
• The novel treats friendship as a bond that can be tested by ambition and rivalry yet still last.
• Games are shown as a way for people to imagine other lives beyond their own.
• Creativity and disability are explored alongside friendship and love as central themes of the story.

Gabrielle Zevin is an American novelist and screenwriter whose books have been translated into many languages. Her other novels include The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry and Elsewhere.