![]() ![]() ![]() As the novel progresses, Emezi sets up this double-sided character who is fighting for good, but is also very capable of hurting people. However, Pet fights Monsters and looks like the religious images of angels that Jam saw in a book just before meeting the creature. ![]() Throughout the novel, too, Jam has to temper Pet’s intimidating drive for what it calls “the hunt”. ![]() Right from the start, there is something unsettling about this entity. The knives in its chest cut Jam, the main character, when she first sees it. The eponymous Pet is an enormous creature covered in feathers with no visible face–it is frightening. In this stunning read, Emezi explores the nuanced conflict between good and evil with their framework of Angels and Monsters.Įmezi’s work teaches us that, sometimes, saviors can cause pain and look like monsters. But even though all of the adults are saying that there are no Monsters in Lucille anymore, a big creature named Pet just came out of a painting Jam’s mom made and it says it’s hunting one. In it, a young Black trans girl named Jam lives in the city Lucille where Monsters (whom we might call bad people or criminals) were all punished by Angels (whom we would call revolutionary leaders). Akwaeke Emezi’s debut YA future-fantasy novel, Pet, has gotten a lot of hype, and justly so. ![]()
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