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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 award-winning, genre-defying novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Death of Vivek Oji that explores themes of identity and justice and asks: How do you share the truth when the world around you is in denial?
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 the lesson that the city is safe for everyone. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature who some might call monstrous but, in reality, is anything but, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has emerged from one of her mother's paintings to hunt a true monster - and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. No one has encountered monsters in years, though, and Jam's quest to protect her best friend and uncover the truth is met with doubt and disbelief.
This award-winning novel from a rising-star author asks: What really makes a monster, and how do you save the world from something if no one will admit it exists?
Stonewall Honor Book
Walter Dean Myers Honor Book
"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)
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"[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut…Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities.”
— New York Times
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“Terrifying and glorious.”
— NPR
Awards
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Finalist for the Ignyte Award for Best YA Novel
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A Stonewall Book Award Honor Book
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Finalist for the National Book Award
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A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book
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A School Library Best Books of the Year Pick
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
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A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
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A Buzzfeed Best Books of the Year
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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Nominated for Maine Student Book Award, 2020
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Among shortlisted titles for National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2019
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About Akwaeke Emezi
Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; and Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Selected as 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.