![]() "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. 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. The award-winning, genre-defying novel by the New York Times bestselling author of THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI that explores themes of. ![]() 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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