The novel follows the same friendship across thirty years. Which version of Sam and Sadie felt most true to you — and which did you wish they could go back to?

Games let the characters live and die a hundred times over. What did you make of that as a way of holding grief?

Marx is called "the missing piece" more than once. Did his presence change how you think about love versus partnership?

The title borrows the bleakest speech in Macbeth, yet the book ends facing the light. Where did you land — despair, or possibility?