tamara goodwin has always lived in the here and now never giving a second thought to tomorrow until a traveling library arrives in her tiny village bringing with it a mysterious large leatherbound book locked with a gold clasp and padlockwhat she discovers within the pages takes her breath away and shakes her world to its corea mesmerizing story about how tomorrow can change what happens today in his first novel dave eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss it reminds us once again what an important necessary talent dave eggers is