Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

Questions and Topics for Discussion

1. In explaining why they never became lovers, Sadie tells Sam, "Lovers are ... common. Because I loved working with you better than I liked the idea of making love to you. Because true collaborators in this life are rare" (page 393). Do you agree? How do you think this plays out in the book? In what ways to you think her love for Marx is the same, and how is it different?
2. How do you think Dov influences Sadie's work as a game designer, as a woman, and as a wife/partner to both Sam and Marx? What do you believe compels her to keep him in her life even after they break up? Why do you think Dov maintains the connection?
3. Sadie considers how their experience as designers would have been different if they were born a decade (more or less) before or after when they were born. Technological advances aside, what else do you feel would have been different about their story if it was shifted slightly in time? Perhaps consider Sadie and Dov's relationship, the options for Sam's foot, the proliferation of mass shootings, and other cultural and social events.

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