Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Publication year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9780593321201
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow follows Sam Masur and Sadie Green, friends who meet as children and become collaborators designing video games across three decades. Gabrielle Zevin's novel traces their creative partnership, rivalries and enduring bond from Massachusetts to California. A New...
Friendship, not romance, is the great love story of Gabrielle Zevin's fifth novel, which follows two gifted collaborators from a childhood meeting in a hospital games room to fame as video-game designers. Across thirty years, Sam and Sadie make worlds together, wound each other, drift and return, and Zevin treats their creative partnership with the seriousness usually reserved for marriages. The novel is unabashedly about work - the exhilaration and pettiness of making something with another person - and about play as a way of surviving pain, disability and grief. It wears its cleverness comfortably, threading in Shakespeare, game design and questions of identity without losing its emotional directness. Readers need no interest in gaming to be drawn in; the games are simply a language for intimacy. Warm, brainy and quietly devastating in places, it became one of the decade's word-of-mouth phenomena for good reason. It is a generous book about the people who shape us and the things we build to say what we cannot.