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Pair: The ÀṢẸ Portraits

Pair: The ÀṢẸ Portraits

Plöger de Àjàgùnnà, Tilo

Paperback

Series: The ÀṢẸ Portraits

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798278703297
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 14 2025
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
PAIR
A novel about a game of two that quietly rewrites the rules for everyone else.

In a schoolyard where everything comes in twos-twins, shared vapes, benches that only make sense with two sets of knees-Lina and the unnamed narrator invent a game to keep from being swallowed by the rules. What begins as chalk squares and private signals turns into a system that decides who is allowed to be fine, who is marked as excessive, and who is quietly left out of the frame.

PAIR is a sharply attentive coming-of-age novel in which joy behaves like contraband. Every party, every after-school transit, every mirrored selfie becomes evidence in an unspoken trial: are you manageable enough to belong? As the term advances, the game shifts from play to doctrine. Pairings are encouraged, then audited. Teachers learn to quote the game back at the students. The yard's invisible grid starts to feel like a theology in which only certain bodies are considered legible.

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