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27 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 

There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents & a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life.
... A hand holds a book up on a train. The emptu seats of the tr
But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns & colours & 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, & the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house.
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Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, & the answer to the question-How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
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In their riveting and timely genre-expanding 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.

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