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ISBN10: 0593309065
ISBN13: 9780593309063
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: Jul 18 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593309063
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: Jul 18 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to PET that explores both the importance and cost of social revolution--and how youth lead the way. Bitter is an aspiring artist who has been invited to cultivate her talents at a special school in the town of Lucille. Surrounded by other creative teens, she can focus on her painting--though she hides a secret from everyone around her. Meanwhile, the streets of Lucille are filled with social unrest. This is Lucille before the Revolution. A place of darkness and injustice. A place where a few ruling elites control the fates of the many. The young people of Lucille know they deserve better--they aren't willing to settle for this world that the adults say is just the way things are. They are protesting, leading a much-needed push for social change. But Bitter isn't sure where she belongs--in the art studio or in the streets. And if she does find a way to help the Revolution while being true to who she is, she must also ask: what are the costs? Acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi looks at the power of youth, protest, and art in this timely and provocative novel, a companion to National Book Award Finalist Pet. Praise for PET: The word hype was invented to describe books like this. --Refinery29
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut. . . . Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities. --The New York Times
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
[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut. . . . Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities. --The New York Times
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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