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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin (born 1977) is a 47 year old American. She was born in NYC. Her father has Russian, Polish and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, and his mother was Korean, came to the USA at age 9. Gabrielle grew up in Boca Raton Florida, went to Harvard and graduated in 2000. Her first novel was published in 2005. She's also written young adult fiction and four screenplays. 

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow came out in 2022. Here's what I liked about it. It felt like Sally Rooney's close up of relationships, in the game world, almost like Sally Rooney wrote a kind of Ready Player One. And there's a kind of Brideshead Revisited triangle. 

People see Zevin as a zionist, which to them means she picks it as OK for what is going on there, but I don't think we need people to denounce the genocide in Gaza to uncancel people. People have tribal loyalties, and like and dislike things, I don't see her liking her heritage as threatening. Someone wondered if she leaves ideas uncredited in her novel, and I'm not sure if you need to footnote ideas in your novel. It's a novel. I find these two criticisms easily dismissed. But my cousin's dislike of it, the Dov character going from acceptable to monster was a bit of a challenge. Just not liking a novel is the most damning thing, and I wonder why it somehow wasn't unlikeable to me. 

I haven't read a novel since April, and I was afraid that maybe I couldn't like novels any more. For me to find one enjoyable was a relief to me. 

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