Book: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
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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 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 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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I didn’t really like the book, but neither did I dislike the book. The storyline in itself is very sweet. But the characters, I don’t know why, I especially disliked Sadie. In a way I thought I should side with her, girls unite and all that, but I just thought she was a bully. A great big bully that didn’t really know what she wanted. I do concede that there were parts that Sam was being unfair too. Marx was mystifying in the “he’s supposed to be full of flaws but you can’t put a finger on it and turns out he’s great.”

This multiple POV and with jumps in timelines (sometimes the past, sometimes referring to the future, then changing POVs) was a little dizzying, but it also made the entire book more interesting.