Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, 2022
Two friends make video games across decades, navigating love, grief, and the strange intimacy of play. For anyone who has ever loved a game—or a person—too much.
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin writes about work and affection with the same steady attention, and her books tend to sit with people who make things together over long stretches of time. Start with «Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow» if you want a friendship stretched across years of making games, or «The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry» if you would rather spend time in a bookshop with a bookseller whose life keeps changing around him. Both share a quiet interest in how ordinary devotion, to a craft or to another person, shapes a life.
Feels like love, identity and friendship.
Start with Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
The novel's title comes from Macbeth's 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,' a speech about time and futility; Zevin's characters work in video games, where a day can be restarted.
What would you attempt if no defeat were final?
What is a game?“ Marx said. ”It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever. Books by Gabrielle Zevin
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin, 2014
A bookseller, a lost child, and a life measured in the books we hand to each other.
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