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Strange bedfellows

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Mismatched heroes and unlikely adventures.

There’s a reason classic story tropes like the ‘Odd Couple’ and the ‘Fish Out of Water’ get drawn and redrawn time and again: because they work. There’s so much joy to be extrapolated from unlikely partnerships between measured/neat/well-mannered So-and-So and reckless/messy/brash Whatchamacallit. Likewise, there’s much pleasure in watching on as a character flips, flaps and flops their way through unfamiliar situations. Here are some books full of unlikely match-ups and outrageous circumstances.