I expected this to be fabulous. I didn't expect to have tears streaming down my face multiple times - tears of joy and of grief. The front end of the book has some wonderful thoughts on gender, especially for those unfamiliar with various terms (e.g., sex, gender identity, transgender). I also appreciated how McBride tied "the fight for gender equity with the fight for gay rights with the fight for trans equality." Those explanations and her coming out story were important inclusions in this book, and they provided a good foundation for the content to come. And that - her advocacy efforts and life immediately post-college - is when the memoir really shined for me.

A phenomenal display of hope that we all need in times like this when it feels like everything is going wrong. This book reminded me that no matter what is happening in our government, there will always be people living their authentic lives and supporting those around them. I highly recommend this book for LGBTQ+ people, their allies, and those who know little about the community alike. Sarah McBride actively opposes history that silenced the voices of the marginalized by documenting her experiences in recent years, and I could not be more proud to share her ideals and hopes. Tomorrow Will Be Different made me laugh, sob, and marvel at the small wonders that persist every day.

The author of this book is only in her mid-twenties, and while she’s lived significantly, there’s definitely less content than many other memoirs. It’s a compelling story of identifying and living as a transgender person, participating in efforts to create fair treatment and opportunity for transgender people, and falling in love with a soulmate. The author does a fine job of reading her own story, which must have been difficult at times. Definitely recommend.

"After trying to explain your basic humanity to people over and over and over again, it can make your own government feel entirely foreign to you. And when you look around and see no one like you in the legislature, that foreignness is compounded with a profound sense of loneliness. It's enough to dissuade even the most dedicated activist from believing that their government is capable of truly seeing them... A government cannot be 'of the people, by the people, and for the people' if wide swaths of the people have no seat at the table, if large parts of the country feel like there is literally no one in their government to can understand what they're going through."

Where do I sign up to start the McBride 2024 campaign? In a book filled with the stark realities of losing her husband two years into their relationship to terminal cancer and Trump’s 2016 victory on the back of hate and prejudice, this book filled me with the same hope as first hearing Barack Obama campaign. (I also had not realized how close she is to the Biden family, and my optimism for queer rights over the next four years went up considerably.)

This would serve as a great introduction to what it means to be trans and contemporary trans issues, but as someone aware of what was covered here, the narrative never felt bogged down, and McBride did an excellent job of weaving in statistics and pointing out her own relative privileges throughout her personal story. I also enjoyed the introduction (and helpful explanations!) of how exactly activism pushing for specific legislation at the state and federal level works. Despite being upset at how...political it all is, it made me feel more empowered that I can affect change.

Finally, I spent a solid two hours of the audiobook in perpetual tears from when Andy is diagnosed with cancer to his death, yet the writing was never saccharine - to me this is the hallmark of an excellent author.

Sarah McBride is so incredible, I was a bit nervous to read this book.

The writing is solid. This is an autobiography that reads easily. And even if you know the story, the hard times are hard, and the good times are exciting.

I appreciate how she reiterates how incredibly privileged she is. I appreciate how she weaves statistics, and facts into her own story. As an advocate and as an educator and spokesperson, that is part of who she is. She has spent her short life living and working for rights so leaving that information out would have felt disingenuous. And it added to the story - giving so much more context - rather then distracts.

Overall she does an excellent job crafting and telling her own story.