New York Times Bestseller and one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century—this isn’t your typical love story. Follow Sam and Sadie as they build video game empires and navigate thirty years of friendship, ambition, and heartbreak. A stunning novel about creativity, identity, and the worlds we build together.
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New York Times Bestseller • Goodreads Choice Award Winner • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
On a frozen December day at a Harvard subway platform, Sam spots Sadie in the crowd and calls her name. She hesitates, then turns—and in that moment, one of the most extraordinary creative partnerships in contemporary fiction begins to unfold.
This isn’t your typical love story. Sam and Sadie, friends since childhood, pour their brilliance and heartache into building immersive worlds through video game design. Before they even graduate, they’ve created Ichigo, a blockbuster that catapults them to fame and fortune. But success, as they’ll discover, offers no armor against creative ambition or the tender, complicated betrayals of the heart.
Gabrielle Zevin has crafted something remarkable here—a novel that spans thirty years and multiple coasts, exploring identity, disability, failure, and the redemptive power of play. It’s about two people who understand each other in the particular way only childhood friends can, who build entire universes together, and who must navigate what it means to grow up without growing apart.
“Delightful and absorbing.” —The New York Times
“Utterly brilliant.” —John Green
Whether you’re a gamer, a dreamer, or simply someone who believes in the enduring power of friendship, this New York Times Notable Book will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page. Stop by the shop—we’d love to talk about this one over the counter.
Delightful and absorbing.
Utterly brilliant.
I devoured this book.
A beautiful rumination on the nature of creative collaboration.
Brilliantly constructed.
A love story, but not a romance.
Zevin's best book yet.
A dazzling novel.
| Weight | 0.66 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 132.00 × 22.00 × 203.00 in |
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| Accolade | Goodreads Choice Award, New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Notable Book |

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