Tomorrow x3

A friend’s daughter was assigned this book in class (high school) and she recommended it highly, so I figured, ok, I know she’s a bright young woman with a dad with good taste in friends, so I read the first free chapters and was hooked.

First, it’s about the gaming industry, second it’s about young entrepreneurs, third it’s about friendship, fourth it has allegorical underpinnings from a certain Greek epic, fifth, it touches on many contemporary hot-button political issues regarding gender, identity, disabilities, gun violence, cultural appropriation, etc. The novel is also a well-paced work of fiction. No lags. No throw-away characters.

I tend to stay away from best-selling commercial fiction and probably will continue to do so, but this was a welcome glance into what is on offer in some classrooms today and it can only bring optimism.