Sam Masur and Sadie Green have been best friends their entire lives, even when they have hated each other.  The one constant in their relationship is video games: playing them, creating them, and producing them.  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow covers thirty years of their lives, from childhood in California, to reconnecting in Boston and forming their gaming company, and, finally, moving the company back to California, where tragedy puts a giant wedge between them.

Gabrielle Zevin’s novel, which won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction and the Book of the Month Book of the Year Award, was already on my radar when I received a copy as a gift from Val.  Because of the way my brain works, I kept finding messages in the text that I assumed had something to do with our friendship.  I could certainly see some similarities between the Sam character and myself, especially the way we internalized everything and questioned whether our friends were truly our friends.  For my own well being, I’m going to assume there was no ulterior motives here and that this was just a book that she enjoyed and genuinely felt that I would as well.

As for Zevin, this was my first encounter with her work.  I’ll certainly have to look deeper into her back catalogue and see if there is anything else that tickles my fancy.  Based on this work, I’m sure I won’t be disappointed.