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Boarded
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Truth Busters
Published: Jan 15 2026
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Boarded is a powerful work of allegorical fiction that reimagines a familiar board game as a living world shaped by property, power, and predetermined rules.
In this world, the stakes are real. Each token carries its own weight - and its own history. For generations, Top Hat has monopolized the game, while tokens like Shoe, Dog, Thimble, Racecar, and Wheelbarrow struggle to move through spaces never designed for them. Progress is slow, opportunity uneven, and the rules consistently favor those who already hold power.
But when the rules begin to bend - not by chance, but by courage - conversations spark, alliances form, and the board itself begins to change. As communities redraw spaces, reclaim stolen deeds, and create new squares built on justice rather than extraction, one truth becomes undeniable: the game was rigged. And yet, it does not have to stay that way.
Through sharp symbolism and collective storytelling, Boarded explores themes of redlining, generational inequality, systemic power, and resistance. It examines how memory lives in spaces, how communities endure despite exclusion, and how transformation can emerge from cooperation rather than competition.
This is not a story about winning.
It is a story about remembering.
About community.
And about what becomes possible when those who were never meant to win begin rewriting the rules together.
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