Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel

 

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

 

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow follows Sam and Sadie through their childhood meeting, college reunification and the development and success of their business.   

Gabrielle Zevin does a masterful job of maturing the voices of each character over the years and the technical aspects of describing the games they created was detailed and fun to follow.   

As a kid of the 80's the evolution of online games from the Oregon Trail to the role playing games of today is a journey worthy of understanding.  It is a great metaphor for the changes we go through as we become fully formed people.  How the experiences in our lives make for a richer, more colorful experience.

Zevin uses the two characters to narrate from their own perspective, but it isn't repetitive and each has a unique view and of course different priorities and drivers.  

As a story of a lifelong friendship, the cadence also rings true.  Sometimes the friends are in lock step, lives intertwined and at others they are separated but still care deeply for another.  

I appreciated that the characters loved one another, but didn't have to have a grand romantic arc. 

Read:  April 19, 2023
Met: @ Beth's
Book Choice: Melinda