All Our Tomorrows
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Publisher Description
In Amy DeBellis’ debut novel, The Hours meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation as, sometime in the near future, three Gen Z women ride the throes of late capitalist life in New York City.
In All Our Tomorrows, Janet, Anna, and Gemma lead separate lives, each ground down by the weight of the world they were born into, lost against the dazzling pixelated backdrop of the city. Too young to remember life before the iPhone 4, they think the real world was destroyed long before they were born.
Janet is an underpaid gig therapist who spends her time as a mental health matchmaker, responding to grievance letters from faceless online avatars. Anna is a model-turned-sugar-baby who dissociates during dates with her aging daddy, hoping to save enough not for a Birkin bag, but for the water wars of the near future. And Gemma is a freshman at NYU who aspires to become an influencer, but is so haunted by a recent loss that she can’t even film one video.
Sharp, incisive, and sparkling with dark humor, this is a novel for the age of the doomer generation. DeBellis delivers an unflinching examination of three young lives as they circle closer and closer to the drain of nihilism, climate anxiety, isolation, and grief. All Our Tomorrows is about finding yourself in a broken world, and the small but mighty decisions that can save you from leaking down the drain.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Debellis debuts with a fresh tale of three Gen Z women reckoning with grief, isolation, and financial precarity in New York City. After Gemma's mom dies, she transfers from her British university to NYU, where she finds a boyfriend and quickly moves in with him. Janet, a native New Yorker, struggles with loneliness while working as an online therapist who reads anonymous "grievance letters" and refers the writers to specialists, but never knows whether they get the help they need. Anna, after moving from Russia to New York to work as a model, now gets paid to be a sugar baby for a wealthy man twice her age. All three are in transitional periods in their life and are also riven with concern about climate change and environmental devastation. Their narratives run on parallel tracks until the final act, when they meet at a protest and make plans to keep in touch. With her all too human characters, Debellis makes palpable the struggles of young women trying to make it on their own. Readers will be won over by this timely tale.
