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Summer in the city can be boring, as Ethan, Alma, Cupcake and Albe know all too well. But everything changes when they come across a weird, dusty old board game. And all their long-hidden fears and anxieties suddenly come true. In order to defeat the game’s curses, they must win a series of challenges, support each other and figure out who they really are. And,especially, grow up.


Brian Freschi (author) has worked in theater for many years. Since 2015 he has been collaborating with the Manticora collective and has published with different pubblisher. He teaches screenwriting at the TheSing Academy in Florence.

AlbHey Longo (illustrator), born in 1993, lives in Turin where he works as a cartoonist and illustrator. He made his debut in 2016 with the graphic novel La quarta variazione, followed in 2019 by Sfera, both published by BAO Publishing.

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