Pet (Pre-Owned Paperback 9780571355112) by Akwaeke Emezi

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9780571355112. Very good condition. Paperback. Main. Pages: 208. 208 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? She stumbled backwards her eyes wide as the figure started coming out of the canvas ... She tried to be brave. Well she said her hands only a little shaky at least tell me what I should call you. ... Well little girl it replied I suppose you can call me Pet. There are no more monsters anymore or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. 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. 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. 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. Beautiful genre-expanding The New York Times Compelling... a wonderful mix of fantasy dystopian drama political commentary and a coming of age tale that is sure to grip any reader The Scotsman The word hype was invented to describe books like this Refinery29