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Gloss: The ÀṢẸ Portraits

Gloss: The ÀṢẸ Portraits

Plöger de Àjàgùnnà, Tilo

Paperback

Series: The ÀṢẸ Portraits

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798278467663
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 12 2025
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
GLOSS
A novel about reflections, sweetness, and the thin line between self-presentation and self-erasure.

Every morning, a woman walks to the river, using water as her first mirror of the day. Later, the city offers other surfaces: shop windows, phone screens, café glass, ATM vestibules, bathroom mirrors. Each one returns a slightly different version of her, each one teaches her body what kind of face is acceptable. Messages arrive from someone who knows how to use her softness like a key: Are you up? Can you talk? The pressure to be pleasing - to be glossy, polished, reflective - begins as habit and ends as a form of disappearance.

GLOSS follows her through river light, crosswalk shine, salons, receipts and labels, tracking where sweetness turns into strategy and where being kind becomes a way of pre-editing herself in every interaction. The city behaves like one long cosmetic aisle, full of products, filters and reassurances that something can be fixed if she only buys, behaves or glows correctly. The question is not whether she is visible, but whose story her visibility is serving.

Underneath, the book is tuned to the Odù Ìròsùn from the Yoruba Ifá system and the shimmering, honey-sharp presence of Òṣun, Òrìṣà of sweetness, beauty and dangerous charm. Àṣẹ moves in light and surface: each gloss, each reflection carries a small charge that blesses and consumes at the same time, just as the Odù holds both delight and warning.

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