Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

This deserves all the accolades going. A perfectly rendered tale of childhood best-friends-forever growing up and trying to make video-games. It is funny, well observed, and grim. It's sort of like Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" for the 21st century.

There's a desperately sad trope about how some men believe that women are a video-game where, if you put enough friendship in, you eventually get rewarded with sex. This is the tangled and twisted tale of how some people believe that, if you put enough friendship in, you get rewarded with a video-game company.

The book is rich with foreshadowing and brutal in its execution. It is written almost as though it were a documentary - shuffling time for maximum narrative impact, and telling the story from multiple points of view.

None of the characters are entirely sympathetic; but none of them are entirely irredeemable. It is a complex a lovely work of fiction about people who understand fiction but don't understand the complexity of human relationships.