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Main Character
Main Character
Representation
Representation
Transgender main character identity.
Summary
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 uncover the truth, and the answer to the question How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial.
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Trigger Warnings
Trigger Warnings
Blood
Eye mutilation
Child abuse (physical/sexual, past, implied)
Violence
What parents need to know
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Pet, by Akwaeke Emezi, is a science fiction-fantasy novel about a transgender teen girl who hunts a child abuser in her town with the help of a creature that comes to life from her mother's painting. Jam lives in the town of Lucille, where, according to all the adults, "monsters" (people who commit abuse against others) have been eliminated by "angels" (valiant members of the community who led a revolution). There's infrequent strong language, including "s--t" and variations of "f--k." Three specific instances of violence occur: A child is physically, and possibly sexually, abused. A woman is said to be the product of rape. The revenge against the abuser is graphic.
Author Info
Author Info
Akwaeke Emezi was born in 1987 and from Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria but raised in Aba, Nigeria. She is an Igbo and Tamil writer and Video artist and moreover, in 27 years of History, The Women’s Prize for Friction had nominated a nonbinary transgender Author.
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