

Following in the trend of Chabon‘s Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Whitaker‘s The Animators, this follows two close friends toiling at an esoteric craft. In those books it was comics and cartoons, in this it‘s video game design. Set in the early 90s and into the 2000s it‘s loaded with Easter eggs. It has so much to say about platonic love, jealousy, collaboration, and the creative life. Haven‘t been this engrossed in a novel for months.