The novel follows three friends, developers Sadie Green and Sam Masur (later "Mazer"), and their producer Marx, over the course of their shared careers, beginning as an indie team working out of a Harvard dorm room, and eventually becoming one of the largest companies in the world.[1] The novel deals heavily with themes of identity, labor, love, causality, and grief. Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977) is an American author and screenwriter. Zevin's debut novel, Margarettown, published in 2005, was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and longlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the novel "a droll piece of romantic whimsy with an unexpected resonance."[4] In 2014, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry debuted on the New York Times Best Seller List, reached #1 on the National Indie Best Seller List, and went on to become an international bestseller. It has been translated into over thirty languages. In 2021, shooting commenced on a feature film adaptation of the novel, starring Kunal Nayyar in the title role, and Lucy Hale, Christina Hendricks, David Arquette, and Scott Foley.[5] Zevin wrote the screenplay adaptation of her novel.[6] Her fourth novel for adults, Young Jane Young (2017), was also met with popular and critical acclaim. Kirkus Reviews called it "the best thing to come out of the Monica Lewinsky scandal since Lewinsky's own magnificent TED talk."[7] Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was released in 2022 as Zevin's fifth novel for adults.[8] It won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction.[9]