Two Nigerian siblings invent a game called Shock-Me-I-Shock-You to test how much truth the other can take — an escape valve for a household straining under their father’s control and their mother’s unraveling. Ola W. Halim writes adolescence as armor, delivered with dark humor and precise dread. It’s a story about what children learn to carry silently.

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