Readers will quickly realize that Pet deals heavily in metaphors. This creature has been summoned to hunt a monster. A monster, Jam logically assumes, because it is so frightening.
It wears her mother’s severed hands on its feathered body, and holds a drop of Jam’s blood in its chest. Jam has known this always, as have all the children blossoming in the utopic town named for light.īut then, a terrifying creature emerges from a canvas painted by Jam’s own mother.
It has been since the revolution, when the angels disentangled the monsters from society’s fabric and wove it back together, stronger. "Like L'Engle, Akwaeke Emezi asks questions of good and evil and agency, all wrapped up in the terrifying and glorious spectacle of fantastical theology.For in Lucille, life is sweet and soft. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question -How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? Acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi makes their riveting and timely young adult debut with a book that asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. Are you brave enough to look? There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities." - The New York Times The highly-anticipated, genre-defying new novel by award-winning author Akwaeke Emezi that explores themes of identity and justice. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER " beautiful, genre-expanding debut.
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