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Overview"NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER ""[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut. . . . 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. Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? 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? 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. ""Like [Madeleine] L'Engle, Akwaeke Emezi asks questions of good and evil and agency, all wrapped up in the terrifying and glorious spectacle of fantastical theology."" -NPR" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Akwaeke EmeziPublisher: Thorndike Striving Reader Imprint: Thorndike Striving Reader Edition: Large type / large print edition Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9781432877484ISBN 10: 1432877488 Publication Date: 08 July 2020 Recommended Age: From 13 to 17 years Audience: Young adult , Teenage / Young adult Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year An NPR Favorite Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year A BuzzFeed Best YA Book of the Year Stonewall Book Award Winner The word hype was invented to describe books like this. -Refinery29 A unique science fiction tale. -Essence With great tenderness, Pet questions a society silenced by denial. -Observer Brilliant. -The Washington Post By far the most striking of the [National Book Award] finalists is PET, a sinister morality tale by Akwaeke Emezi. -The Wall Street Journal A riveting and timely work answering the questions about how you go about the world when the world around you is in denial. -Out Magazine This soaring novel shoots for the stars and explodes the sky with its bold brilliance. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review A compelling, nuanced tale that fans of speculative horror will quickly devour. --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review A riveting and important read that couldn't be more well timed to our society's struggles with its own monsters. --School Library Journal, Starred Review Jam is also notable as a Black, trans protagonist in this important narrative that teens will want to read to gain some perspective on the modern political environment. --The Bulletin, Starred Review Emezi's characters are diverse in race, physical ability and especially gender.... Readers might see in Jam's surroundings a version of a world that they, like Jam, might choose to fight for. --BookPage, Starred Review A haunting and poetic work of speculative fiction. --The Horn Book Author Information"Akwaeke Emezi makes their young adult debut with Pet on the inaugural Make Me a World list. An honoree on the National Book Foundation's ""5 Under 35"" list, a long-list nominee for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and a short-list nominee for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, Akwaeke continues to receive accolades for their adult debut, Freshwater. The autobiographical novel also received rave reviews from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times, among others, as well as starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist. Their sophomore adult novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, is forthcoming in 2020 from Riverhead. Learn more about Akwaeke at Akwaeke.com or on Twitter at @azemezi." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |