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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? 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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"[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.