Together, they develop a brilliant video game, Ichigo, which earns them wealth and fame but brings on fresh calamities. Years later, the two run into each other again, while Sam is at Harvard and Sadie is at MIT. The novel follows its two protagonists, Sam Masur and Sadie Green, whose unlikely friendship is sparked in a children’s hospital game room. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win.” It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. In video games, the game of life never ends. But, unlike Macbeth, Zevin’s protagonists have the privilege of twentieth-century video game technology. Taking its title from the famous soliloquy from Macbeth, Zevin’s novel has it that one is but “a poor player” in the game of life. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is part coming-of-age story, part love letter to the video game industry, and part exploration of the enduring power of friendship.
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