Your Turn, Then Mine

About this book

The bus is late, the queue has turned a corner, or the power has gone out. Pip Meadows gathers thirty-two games across sixteen chapters and four kinds of waiting: empty-handed waits, games made from pocket objects, quiet rooms and long journeys. Nenek Salmah, Mr Odell Barron, Auntie Cordy, Pak Ziq, Mr Farouk Adnan, Ilse Marchetti and Beni each pass on a small playable way to turn toward another person. Every game states its players, materials, duration and noise level. It is not a book about productivity. It is a book about the person sitting next to you.