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Akwaeke emezi pet5/25/2023 Her parents tell her that Bitter’s paintings have come to life before and now Jam must send it back to where it came from. Later, Jam accidentally brings the monster to life when she trips and slices herself on the razor blades. She returns home to her mother, an artist named Bitter, and stays with her in her art studio as Bitter paints a large portrait of a cream-colored creature with razor blades poking out of its fur. These angels are nothing like the people in her town that had conquered the monsters, and she doesn’t like that things don’t appear to the eye as they truly are. One day, Jam is inspired to check out some books in the library about angels and finds old religious images that frighten her. (Metaphorical angels like lawyers and judges and activists and metaphorical monsters like murderers and rapists and cons.) They live in a city called Lucille during a time when all of the monsters of the world have been conquered by angels. PET by Akwaeke Emezi is about a young girl named Jam, her best friend Redemption, and their families.
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