Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A thirty-year friendship between two game designers. Zevin makes the process of making art feel as urgent as any love story. Because it is.
The Game of Making
Gabrielle Zevin's 2022 novel follows Sadie Green and Sam Masur, who first bond as children in a hospital over video games and reunite in their twenties to become creative partners making games together. Spanning three decades from the early 1990s to the 2020s, the novel traces the arc of their relationship, which is not quite romantic, not quite platonic, and entirely irreplaceable, through the making of games that mean everything to them. Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 2023, the novel became a word-of-mouth phenomenon and remained on the bestseller list for over a year.
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"To be a gamer is to be intimate with failure.
"Gabrielle Zevin
Zevin researched the novel by spending two years learning to code and build games. She consulted extensively with game designers to ensure the technical details were accurate. The novel is also a love letter to the history of video games.
The title is taken from Macbeth's Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow soliloquy. Zevin said she chose it because the speech is about time passing and work enduring, which is exactly what the novel is about.