Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Sam and Sadietwo college friends, often in love, but never loversbecome 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.

"Delightful and absorbing."The New York Times "Utterly brilliant." John Green

One of the New York Timess 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the Best Books of the Year: TheNew York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily

From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: 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 hasnt 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 wont 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 Zevins 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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WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER WINGATE PRIZE NOMINEE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK

One of the Best Books of the Year: TheNew York Times, TIME, Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, Oprah Daily, Slate, Self.com, Bookpage, Kirkus, SheReads, GoodReads, Goop, and The What List

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Jimmy Fallon Book Club Pick A Time Must-Read Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction BookPage Best Fiction of the Year

"Delightful and absorbing...Zevin burns precisely zero calories arguing that game designers are creative artists of the highest order. Instead, she accepts that as a given, and wisely so, for the best of them plainly are...Expansive and entertaining...Dozens of Literary Gamers will cherish the world shes lovingly conjured. Meanwhile, everyone else will wonder what took them so long to recognize in video games the beauty and drama and pain of human creation."
Tom Bissell, The New York Times

"A tour de force... A moving demonstration of the blended power of fiction and gaming....Zevin describes herself as 'a lifelong gamer.' That level of experience could very well have produced a story of hermetically sealed nostalgia impenetrable to anyone who doesnt still own a copy of 'Space Invaders.' But instead, shes written a novel that draws any curious reader into the pioneering days of a vast entertainment industry too often scorned by bookworms. And with the depth and sensitivity of a fine fiction writer, she argues for the abiding appeal of the flickering screen."
Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Whatever its subject, when a novel is powerful enough, it transports us readers deep into worlds not our own. That's true of Moby Dick, and it's certainly true of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,which renders the process of designing a great video game as enthralling as the pursuit of that great white whale.There aresmart ruminations here about cultural appropriation, given that the game, Ichigo, is inspired by Japanese artist Hokusai's famous painting The Great Wave at Kanagawa.It's a big, beautifully written novel about an underexplored topic, that succeeds in being both serious artandimmersive entertainment.
Maureen Corrigan, NPRs Fresh Air

"Engrossing....Though it contains plenty of nostalgia for the pioneer age of 1990s game design, this isnt primarily a novel of nerdy insider references....Videogames happen to be the medium by which [Zevin's characters] best express themselves and share in each others life."
Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

Woven throughout [Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow] are meditations on originality, appropriation, the similarities between video games and other forms of art, the liberating possibilities of inhabiting a virtual world, and the ways in which platonic love can be deeper and more rewardingespecially in the context of a creative partnershipthan romance.
The New Yorker

"Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a celebration of the narratives, in video games and in life, that reinforce just how important connection really is. In following Sam and Sadies journey from Massachusetts to California and into the imagined worlds of their games, Zevin writes the most precious kind of love story."
Annabel Gutterman, Time

The story of three brilliant kids who found a videogame company, this book is about so much morefriendship, love, loyalty, violence in America and the magic of invented worlds. Gorgeous.
Kim Hubbard, People

"Zevin is a great writer who makes you care deeply about her characters....Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow resonated with me for personal reasons, but I think Zevins exploration of partnership and collaboration is worth reading no matter who you are. Even if youre skeptical about reading a book about video games, the subject is a terrific metaphor for human connection."
Bill Gates

"You dont have to be a gamer to appreciate the pulsing heart of this best-seller: In a story spanning three decades and references fromOregon TrailtoMacbeth, Gabrielle Zevlin has written a modern, definitive story about work, love, and friends for whom youd do and risk everything."
Keely Weiss and Halie Lesavage, Harpers Bazaar

A remarkably absorbing portrait of friendship, identity, and the urge to create something beautiful, whether it be on the page or in pixels.Zevinclearly knows her way around anRPG, but it's the analog intimacy of Tomorrow's wise, sensitive storytelling that stays.
Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

"Ive never played avideo gamein my life, and I was sucked into this book like it was Halo and I was a socially awkward tween in 2001. Really, this isnt just a book for people who understand life through the pixels, but for people who understand life through stories."
Jenny Singer, Glamour

"One of the most special novels written in the past decade. This story follows two friends who form a thrilling creative partnership that drives them together and apart over the course of their young lives."
Kiki Koroshetz, Goop

"Utterlyabsorbing...Until I read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, I had never heard of anyone playing games the way my husband and I play games, the way that Sam and Sadie doon campaign mode but passing the controller back and forth. It takes a shattering lack of ego to play this way, knowing that someone else has the power to make a decision that would change the storyline or garner the skills to play through certain sequences that youll never see again. All that matters when you play like this is that youre moving forward, and youre together."
Adrienne So, Wired

This is a boy meets girl story that is never a romance though it is romantic Zevin blurs the lines between reality and play... Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is an artfully balanced novel charming but never saccharine. The world Zevin has created is textured, expansive and, just like those built by her characters, playful.
PippaBailey, The Guardian

"Two friends, who are often in love, but never lovers, must contend with the fame, joy and tragedy that comes with success after they enter the world of video game design. Spanning three decades and multiple locations, this love story by The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry author is anything but predictable."
E! News, Tierney Bricker

"Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a decade-spanning feat in storytelling, switching perspectives as the story winds through the years."
Elena Nicolaou, TODAY Show

"Despite [her] fantastical virtual worlds woven in lush detail, Zevin wants us to take a hard look beyond the screen...At its heart, Tomorrow is a coming-of-age tale stretched, in so many ways, by grief and hurt.This is Zevins tough love: There is no shortage of misfortune in life. Take a deep breath. Click continue....Tomorrow is not the type of book to accept a game over. It clutches onto that innocent hope ingrained in all video games."
The Washington Post

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrowis buoyant despite the illness and pain that speckles its characters lives because they hope to meet again, to play again, to build again like gods.This book, with its respect for craftthe craft of love and games, or loving gameswill remind you of how abundant one life is, how lucky we are to keep each other in our memories forever.
Ashley Bardhan, Kotaku

"This is a great novel. Zevin has the ability to make you care about her creations within paragraphs of meeting them....The book is rich with characters whose intertwined fates power the narrative...We are glad of the privilege of accompanying Sam and Sadie on the adventure of growing up and discovering who they are, and wondering who they might have been."
Erica Wagner, The Financial Times

"If your Insta and #BookTok feeds are filled with pics of this read...there's a reason why....Trust us when we say to give it a shot....You'll follow [Sam and Sadie] over the course of decades, from Massachusetts to California, as they deal with ambition, loss, success, and heartache. We're not crying, you are."
The Skimm

"Gabrielle Zevins potent new novel feature[s] a memorable and oddly stirring meet-cute, with Sam getting the attention of his long-ago childhood friend Sadie by shouting across a crowded train platform that she 'has died of dysentery.' If you picked up on that Oregon Trail reference, you may appreciate this funny, unpredictable story of love and video games set in the late 90s, a time when a couple of indie programmers like Sam and Sadie could take the world by storm with nothing but a good idea and a stack of floppy disks."
Patrick Rapa, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Utterly brilliant. In this sweeping, gorgeously written novel, Gabrielle Zevin charts the beauty, tenacity, and fragility of human love and creativity. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is one of the best books I've ever read."
John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed

My #1 book to recommendTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow [is] incredible, like The Amazing Adventures of Kavali

Author Bio

GABRIELLE ZEVIN is the New York Times and internationally best-selling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, which won the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award and the Japan Booksellers Award among other honors, and Young Jane Young, which won the Southern Book Prize. Her novels have been translated into thirty-nine languages. She has also written books for young readers, including the award-winning Elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles.