All Our Tomorrows

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. (Feb.)