Prisons have been abolished, queer family units and gender fluidity are considered normal, Blackness is casually celebrated, accommodations for disability and neurodiversity are commonplace, and the town is generally shown to have moved on from the bad old days of repression and discrimination, and from the revolution that caused the shift a generation previously. Pet is the story of Jam, a girl living in the town of Lucille in an unspecified future time when many of the social problems and prejudices of our own time have been solved. As a relatively short and easy read, even for its age range, Pet was also perfect for the tail end of yet another winter cold: yet its a book that packs a punch well beyond what its length might lead one to believe. It's a book that I've been meaning to get my hands on for far too long, and I was incredibly lucky to have some wonderful humans of the SFF community send a copy my way. In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices a young person can make when the adults around them are in denial.Pet is the second published novel, and first young adult book, by author Akwaeke Emezi, following their debut Freshwater.
Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth.
Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house.
But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours 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. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Well, little girl, it replied, I suppose you can call me Pet. Well, she said, her hands only a little shaky, at least tell me what I should call you. She stumbled backwards, her eyes wide, as the figure started coming out of the canvas
How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
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