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Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
NATIONAL BOK AWARD FINALIST - STONEWAL BOK AWARD WINER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times - Time - Buzzfeed - NPR - New York Public Library - Publishers Weekly - School Library Journal 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
Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, a Walter Honor Book and a Stonewall Honor Book; the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Award;Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize; and most recently, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir. Their debut poetry collection, Content Warning: Everything, is forthcoming in 2022. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.
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| 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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