Gabrielle Zevin
Author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
About the Author
Gabrielle Zevin was born in New York City on October 24, 1977. She received a degree in English and American literature from Harvard University in 2000. She has written both adult and young adult novels. Her debut, Margarettown, was a selection of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers show more program. Her other works include The Hole We're In, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry. Her young adult novel Elsewhere was an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. She has also written for the New York Times Book Review and NPR's All Things Considered. She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women starring Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination. In 2009, she and director Hans Canosa adapted her novel Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac into the Japanese film, Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1977-10-24
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Harvard University
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- Independent Spirit Award (Nomination, Best Original Screenplay, 2007)
Austin Film Festival (Audience Award, 2002)
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While this book's main characters and the main plot focus on the creation of video games, there are far deeper, more complex, issues that lie at the heart of this story. The author uses the video and the metaphor of the video game to examine and challenge human's perceptions of love, friendship, work, family, sense of belonging; as well as life, death and grief. I think this quote, from the last 3rd of the book (336), encapsulates why I loved this book and why it resonated with me.
"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."… (more)