The only part of Pet that felt like it belonged in the Young Adult genre (other than the age of the protagonist) was the facile approach to a lot of the more serious subjects in the book. Ultimately, Pet is a story about how dangerous people and evil thrive in plain sight when people want to believe what they see on the surface. When a creature emerges from her mother’s painting, Jam is forced to reconcile with the truth that monsters may still exist. – and believes that monsters no longer exist within its society. Lucille has rid itself of monstrous people – politicians, criminals, etc. Pet is a wildly creative allegory following Jam, a Black trans teenage girl who lives in a sort of utopian city, Lucille, in the near future. 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?Ī 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. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. 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. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Publisher’s SynopsisĪ genre-defying novel from the award-winning author NPR describes as “like L’Engle… glorious.” A singular book that explores themes of identity and justice. In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year old Jam’s mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
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