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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
About the Author: Akwaeke Emezi made their young adult debut with Pet, which was a National Book Award Finalist, a Walter Award Honor Book, a Stonewall Honor Book and received numerous other accolades. An honoree on the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 list, Akwaeke is the author of two acclaimed novels for adults, Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji.

Learn more about Akwaeke at Akwaeke.com or on Twitter at @azemezi.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780593309063
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0593309065
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 281 gr


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