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Togeth­er, they attempt to make video games whose rid­dles and hypo­thet­i­cal quests will become as famil­iar to their gen­er­a­tion as Shake­speare and his heroes were to his. The two young men are room­mates at Har­vard Sadie, whom they both adore, is a stu­dent at MIT. The nov­el con­cerns three bril­liant young stu­dents: Sam, Marx, and Sadie. Like Dick­in­son, Zevin sug­gests a world in which mean­ing does not need to be sep­a­rat­ed from mechanics.

An Emi­ly Dick­in­son poem (“That Love is all there is”) serves as the epi­graph of the book: A pro­lif­ic nov­el­ist, Gabrielle Zevin is equal­ly com­fort­able with poet­ic lan­guage and com­put­er cod­ing con­cepts, and she excels at depict­ing the sub­tlest of human emo­tions. Tomor­row, and Tomor­row, and Tomor­row is a fas­ci­nat­ing fic­tion­al hybrid: a view into the intri­cate art and craft of video-game design, a poignant bil­dungsro­man, and a love sto­ry.