Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

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A genre-defying novel from the award-winning author NPR describes as like Madeline] L'Engle.glorious. A singular book that explores themes of identity and justice. Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look?

A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut --The New York Times

There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. 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. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. 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?

A riveting and timely young adult debut novel that asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial.

The word hype was invented to describe books like this. -Refinery29

In the inaugural Make Me a World list, Akwaeke Emezi makes their young adult debut with Pet. Akwaeke's adult debut, Freshwater, was named to the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 list, was a long-list nominee for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and was a short-list nominee for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Award. The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times, among others, praised the autobiographical novel, which also garnered starred ratings from Library Journal and Booklist. The Death of Vivek Oji, their sophomore adult novel, will be published by Riverhead in 2020. For more information, visit Akwaeke.com or follow them on Twitter at @azemezi.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780593175446
ISBN 10	0593175441
Title	Pet
Author	Akwaeke Emezi
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2021-01-19
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Short-listed for National Book Award for Young People's Literature 2019, Nominated for Connecticut Nutmeg Children's Book Award 2021, Nominated for Maine Student Book Award 2020
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