Pet
von Akwaeke Emezi
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIMENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times • Time • Buzzfeed • NPR • New York Public Library • Publishers Weekly • School Library JournalA genre-defying novel from the award-winning author NPR describes as “like [Madeline] L’Engle…glorious.” A singular book that explores themes of identity and justice. 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?A riveting and timely young adult debut novel that asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial."[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut" –The New York Times"The word hype was invented to describe books like this." –Refinery29
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Pet
von Akwaeke Emezi
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIMENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times • Time • Buzzfeed • NPR • New York Public Library • Publishers Weekly • School Library JournalA genre-defying novel from the award-winning author NPR describes as “like [Madeline] L’Engle…glorious.” A singular book that explores themes of identity and justice. 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?A riveting and timely young adult debut novel that asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial."[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut" –The New York Times"The word hype was invented to describe books like this." –Refinery29
Aktuelle Rezensionen(1)
Rezension von JuliaJam and Redemption are my new favorite platonic power couple. I loved how they had each others backs all the time. I loved how awesome the librarian is. I loved how Emezi developed this extraordinary being called pet. I loved how casually the author installs queer personas. This is a peculiar and precious book, animated through it’s endearing characters. “It’s not helpful to push him right now. Pet growled in her head. Fine, it said, go and hold his hand, then. Whatever you humans do. It stalked away to the shelves. Jam went over to Redemption and sat on the floor next to the chair he was in. She didn’t say anything, not wanting to interrupt his silence. Instead, she climbed into the silence with him, staying there, feeling it’s soft curves.” “Jam swallowed hard. The comfort of its awkwardness was gone, and it seemed casually lethal now […].”