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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Gabrielle Zevin (Author), Jennifer Kim (Narrator), Julian Cihi (Narrator),
4.4 out of 5 stars 120,200 ratings
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 heard before.

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

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the Best Books of the Year: The New 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 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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    13 hours and 52 minutes
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    Gabrielle Zevin
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  4. Audible release date
    July 5, 2022
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Random House Audio
  7. ASIN
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Listening Length 13 hours and 52 minutes
Author Gabrielle Zevin
Narrator Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
Audible.com Release Date July 05, 2022
Publisher Random House Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B09KD6TCSP
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Customers find this novel to be an engaging story of long-term friendship with wonderfully developed characters and beautiful language. The book is praised for its gaming insights and thought-provoking content, with one customer noting how the game ideas serve as a metaphor for life. While customers appreciate the emotional depth of the narrative, some express disappointment with certain storylines.

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667 customers mention "Readability"577 positive90 negative

Customers find the book highly readable, describing it as an excellent novel that was amazing to read.

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"...The story itself feels like something that could make an excellent Netflix short series...." Read more

"I just loved it. Not a gamer myself but I connected so much to the characters and life and love and just how fleeting life can be...." Read more

"...The author's gift for imagery and her willingness to let (most) of her characters wear their warts on their sleeves makes them not only relatable,..." Read more

333 customers mention "Character development"270 positive63 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book, noting that the characters are wonderfully developed and their relationships are well portrayed.

"...Or to craft those horizons. Her characters are unforgettable...." Read more

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"Enjoyed every bit of this. Read in just two days. Thoughtful characters with right balance of humor and somber tones. Highly recommend." Read more

"...What stood out most for me was the character development. I found myself completely invested in their journeys...." Read more

296 customers mention "Writing style"250 positive46 negative

Customers appreciate the writing style of the book, describing it as beautiful and highly readable, with one customer noting its lyrical quality.

"For a novel of this depth, it read surprisingly quickly...." Read more

"...In the 400 beautifully written pages of Zevin’s latest novel , These characters come together to form one of the strangest and most beautiful love..." Read more

"Enjoyed every bit of this. Read in just two days. Thoughtful characters with right balance of humor and somber tones. Highly recommend." Read more

"...But overall, the work is brilliant and wonderful and highly readable. Go for it." Read more

257 customers mention "Friendship"246 positive11 negative

Customers appreciate the book's portrayal of long-term friendships, with one customer noting how the relationships were reflected in the characters' games.

"...much more to it but at Tim’s heart, it was about how the love of friends changes us forever." Read more

"...Gabrielle wrote and depicted friendships so beautifully . True friendships are not perfect, they are not a straight line...." Read more

"...video game references, both real and fictional, that are woven together seamlessly...." Read more

"...A book about friendship, ambition, disability, and triumph and all the different kinds of love you will inevitability experience along the way...." Read more

211 customers mention "Pacing"190 positive21 negative

Customers praise the book's pacing, finding it incredibly moving and poignant, with one customer noting how it made them feel deeply and another describing it as a deep journey into the hearts of the characters.

"...The relationship between Sadie and Sam and Marx was joyous and heartbreaking, Each section of the book had a slightly different style and tone which..." Read more

"...Otherwise, this is a moving, authentic novel about the experience of playing games with another special person and the conversations and connections..." Read more

"...interest me (i.e. gaming) but still manages to make it such an interesting and incredible read...." Read more

"...Beyond that, it's pretty good coming of age. Exploring angles of empathy. No character is too 2D. Actually, scratch that...." Read more

165 customers mention "Gaming insight"149 positive16 negative

Customers appreciate the book's insights about gaming, finding the story educational and fascinating, with one customer noting how the game concepts serve as a metaphor for life.

"...It romanticizes the idea of video game development, ignoring things like “crunch time“, running a business, office politics, and other meta elements..." Read more

"...love so much about video games; they are not just silly fun, but worlds to explore." Read more

"...the life I wish was mine, at least the happy parts about successful and respected games...." Read more

"...The story is loaded with video game references, both real and fictional, that are woven together seamlessly...." Read more

150 customers mention "Creativity"150 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's creativity, finding it thought-provoking and insightful about life, with one customer noting how it draws readers into a richly detailed world.

"...the synopsis, this is not about video games - its about people finding their way in life...." Read more

"...A book about friendship, ambition, disability, and triumph and all the different kinds of love you will inevitability experience along the way...." Read more

"...The story goes far beyond video games—it’s about friendship, creativity, ambition, grief, and complicated human connections...." Read more

"...But overall, the work is brilliant and wonderful and highly readable. Go for it." Read more

186 customers mention "Story quality"83 positive103 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the story quality of the book, with some finding it interesting from beginning to end, while others express disappointment with certain storylines and mention being distracted from the overall narrative.

"...probably be tempted to throw it away because of how unrealistically it portrays the industry. Myself, I’m halfway on it...." Read more

"...book is the way Gabrielle Zevin illustrates that even the best of humans are flawed. We all have moments where we shine...." Read more

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"...storyline moved along from person to person and kept your attention with a few twists and turns so that you didn’t want to put it down...." Read more

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Became an instant favorite upon completion
Apart from being the prettiest book on my shelf (I mean come on, even the spine is beautiful)… it’s totally one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s so hard to say what it’s about. It’s about two people that played games when they’re kids, and they go on to make games together when they’re older. It’s so much more, though. It’s about life and death, the creative process, how your coworker could possibly be the best you’ve ever had. Art initiating life, life imitating art. Video games, video games, video games. It’s a beautiful, masterfully crafted story. Full of amazing characters that you may not like initially, but I’m positive you’ll grow to love them as I did. I shed one of those grown-man Denzel tears when I read the last sentence. An absolute page turner.
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  • Maureen Ann OMalley
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books ever
    Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2025
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    I loved this book completely. I think we don’t have nearly enough love stories about love between friends and that was what this book boiled down to for me. There was so much more to it but at Tim’s heart, it was about how the love of friends changes us forever.
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  • Eric Juneau
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Love Letter to Video Games (and the friends we made along the way)
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023
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    This book seems to be sweeping the nation as the new “The Fault in Our Stars“. It’s got higher than 4 and a quarter stars for having 300,000 reviews, which means it’s a box office smash (at least as far as books ago). So what is it about? Is it a romance? An adventure? A family saga?

    Kind of all three, but also not all three. It’s the story of two people who create a video game company. These two, a girl and a guy, used to be friends as pre-teenagers, but had a falling out. In college, they both fall into programming which leads to video game making, which leads to the story at hand as they become friends and business partners. Also, it’s about the other people that come into their life as a result of that, such as the best friend/roommate who goes from theater major to video game producer and the girl’s college professor. The story takes place from 1995 up to present day.

    Let’s talk about the two main characters. One is Sam. His trauma is that he has a foot that was broken in a million places, a handicap which has made him taciturn and stoic, though he reads like autistic–overanalytical, judgemental, aloof.

    The second is Sadie who also found solace in video games, as her sister had childhood cancer and became the focus of the family’s attention. She bonded with Sam since they both were often in the children’s ward of the hospital. Sadie has bouts of depression and insecurity, even though she’s a game-making genius. This leads to an affair with her foreign-born video game professor who’s one of “those” types (egotistical, pompous, always thinks he’s right and everyone else’s opinion is wrong) and much unhealthy relationshippage occurs.

    From the first chapter, I wasn’t sure how this would go down. Since the first main character is Sam, it sounded “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time“. The writing sounded like writing. The dialogue did not sound like how people talk. But I gave it the benefit of the doubt and continued. It starts out almost being a sick kids romance (The Fault in Our Stars, Everything, Everything, Five Feet Apart) But I was able to get past that and into the core of the book, which is about the creation of video games–what ludonarration means, video games as art, as ways to make the audience feel something.

    It romanticizes the idea of video game development, ignoring things like “crunch time“, running a business, office politics, and other meta elements that come with complex media production. Instead, the author focuses on the relationship between the people working on the project (e.g. game producers as public figures such as Will Wright or Richard Garriott).

    The author is writing video games not as they were but how she wishes they could be. Which would be fine… if the majority of this book didn’t take place in the past. See, the big video game they make is called “Ichigo” and the way they talk about it, it seems to be along the lines of “Limbo” or “Undertale”. It sounds artsy and avant-garde, which would be fine if this took place today. But in 1995, there were no such things. Video games didn’t make people cry in 1995. And they certainly weren’t used as pack-in games for new consoles, which is what this game becomes (as part of a plot point). The top games in 1995 were Quake, Duke Nukem 3-D, Command and Conquer, Super Mario 64, etc. War games. Shooters. Well-established franchises.

    You couldn’t be successful unless you were at least a little bit commercial. There is no freakin’ way someone would have made an artsy game as the pack-in. (They weren’t even using pack-ins anymore by this time.) And certainly not a game from a new unproven studio with just two people. There were no Bastions or Insides or Journeys or even Bioshocks that you could point to and say “here’s a successful example of the video game we’re making and that’s why this is going to work.”

    So that’s what bothers me the most–the backdrop is not plausible, and I pointed out a hundred times where “this wouldn’t have happened”, “no way should this have happened”, “the industry would have reamed them out if this happened”. The only game during this era I could even try to point to that succeeded was “Myst”. And that game succeeded because it had a big new gimmick–the CD-ROM which allowed complex graphics and FMVs. No such innovations in this book. It wasn’t until 2003 that companies started taking chances with non-traditional games (e.g. “Katamari Damacy” and “Shadow of the Colossus“).

    On the other hand, maybe this is the author writing about video games and how they evolved as she wishes they had been. Instead of it all being guns and gore and misogynistic heroes like Duke Nukem and Solid Snake, she wrote a universe where video games catered toward all genders instead of just guys. There’s no reason video games had to be marketed toward boys. It was just what they did in the eighties because executives believed in “there are toys for boys and toys for girls and there is no crossover.”

    There is good writing here. I particularly fell for the beautiful chapter in the third act break (no spoilers!). If you don’t know anything about video games as an industry, you will enjoy this book. If you do, you will probably be tempted to throw it away because of how unrealistically it portrays the industry. Myself, I’m halfway on it. The story itself feels like something that could make an excellent Netflix short series. The video game backdrop drove me nuts, but I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t the kind of book I wish I could write.
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  • Pence & Rodriguez
    5.0 out of 5 stars Video Games and Lifelong Friendships
    Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025
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    As somebody who grew up with Pong and Tetris, I was well past the video gaming sensation that was Donkey Kong and Frogger and the games of the 1981 era. But I loved everything about this novel that begins with 2 innocent kids in a hospital unit in the 80’s.

    I love the way the author unfolds what it is like to be a multi cultural human, an Asian human, a Jewish human, a genius, in a society that rarely celebrates others. Although I am not a big gamer, I enjoyed almost every moment of this book.

    The relationship between Sadie and Sam and Marx was joyous and heartbreaking, Each section of the book had a slightly different style and tone which I railed against and simultaneously embraced. Although I will always root for best friends to end up together as life partners - I can understand the tension that builds when two strong creative forces butt heads whether it be over video games, over hospital stays, over love,or over a company.

    Thank you to Gabrielle Zevin who continues to remind us that love is love is love and marriage equality is an important right, and that our world is made up of beautifully culturally unique people who brilliantly unfold during a novel.

    SPOILERS
    I wept at NPC - and Marx telling the story of the shooting.
    I got so frustrated at PIONEERS until I understood why the book took a tonal shift.

    Thank you for this gift that made me reconnect with what I love so much about video games; they are not just silly fun, but worlds to explore.
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  • Cathy
    5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic characters and story
    Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2025
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    I just loved it. Not a gamer myself but I connected so much to the characters and life and love and just how fleeting life can be. Gabrielle wrote and depicted friendships so beautifully . True friendships are not perfect, they are not a straight line. Sometimes we have to start from the beginning again… more than once .
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  • JR
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing read!
    Reviewed in India on March 26, 2025
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    This book had me enthralled from the first page till the last. Cannot recommend this enough! I am not a gamer and yet found myself lost in the world of gaming and in the complicated yet beautiful relationships in the book.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars 日本のゲーム文化とアメリカのイノベーションの完璧な融合
    Reviewed in Japan on May 25, 2025
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    1980年代生まれの日本人読者として、この本は心の奥深くに響きました。ゼヴィンは日本のゲーム文化とアメリカの起業家精神を見事に織り合わせています。

    基盤は純粋な日本のゲームDNA - マリオ、ドンキーコング、クロノ・トリガーは単なる名前の羅列ではなく、物語の骨格として機能。幼少期に父親のPCを通じてゲームの喜びを発見した私は、登場人物たちの原体験に深い共感を覚えました。

    この作品を特別にしているのは、ゼヴィンがこれをUSカルチャーの重要点である、起業家精神。ハーバード/MITスタートアップのエネルギーとバランスよく描いている点です

    「レベルアップ」の構造が素晴らしい - 仕事、友情、愛が競い合うのではなく、共に進化していきます。この並行した発展は、個人的成長と職業的達成が絡み合うゲーム世代の体験を完璧に捉えています。

    最も重要なのは、この本が私たちの文化的輸出品を終着点ではなく、新しい創造性の出発点として描いていることです - そしてそれは日本人としての私自身の創造活動にも影響を与えています。真のイノベーションは情熱からくる融合から生まれるのだと。

    異文化間を行き来する人、ゲームで育った人には必読。

    As a Japanese reader born in the 1980s, this book hit me right in the heart. Zevin masterfully weaves together Japanese gaming culture with American entrepreneurial spirit in a way that feels both authentic and inspiring.

    The foundation is pure Japanese gaming DNA - Mario, Donkey Kong, Chrono Trigger aren't just name-dropped but serve as the story's backbone. As someone who discovered gaming joy through my father's PC in childhood, I felt deep empathy with the characters' formative experiences.

    What makes this special is how Zevin balances this with real Harvard/MIT startup energy - the urgency and ambition feels authentic, not romanticized.

    The "leveling up" structure is brilliant - work, friendship, and love evolve together rather than competing. This parallel development perfectly captures the gaming generation's experience where personal growth and professional achievement intertwine.

    Most importantly, this book shows our cultural exports not as endpoints but as launching points for new creativity - and it influences my own creation as a Japanese. True innovation comes from thoughtful synthesis, not dominance.

    A must-read for anyone navigating between cultures or anyone who grew up gaming. Zevin has created something genuinely transformative here.
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  • Rafaela Nunes
    5.0 out of 5 stars marvelous
    Reviewed in France on February 9, 2025
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    Marvelous, a must read
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  • G.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great novel
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on June 3, 2025
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    Loved this story, it was gripping and emotional. Definitely a must read and I would read it again
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  • Eylül Özbek
    1.0 out of 5 stars It was boring‼️‼️‼️‼️
    Reviewed in Turkey on August 25, 2024
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    I really tried to finish it but I couldn’t. I only could have read 100 pages. I hate this book…
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