It hits close to home, especially in a post-#MeToo world. Terrifying angel, will not let her look away. Jam does not want to believe there are monsters in Lucille,ĭoesn’t want to believe that someone she knows is being abused-but Pet, the Of abusive situations and our knee-jerk tendency to deny that which we don’t Still holds onto the possibility that Pet has made a mistake-there can’t be Redemption’s house, she refuses to believe it. Intentionally abstract appearance, I could picture it so clearly-its horns, itsĭismembered hands, its eyeless face. Nothing like our understanding of how angels are supposed to look. In Lucille, and now Jam is entangled in the hunt. Her, Jam quickly realizes that all is not as it seems. TheseĬharacters belonged on the page, in this story, just as they belong next to us Mother’s accent-it all contributed to a feeling of complete belonging. Small details-her hormones, her afro, her father’s fried plantains, and her Importance of such a character until I’d already turned the last page. Transness was so uncomplicated, so naturally included that I didn’t realize the When she signs, where love and happiness are palpable in the air. Repeated, where a fifteen-year-old trans girl can choose when she speaks and A town where history is taught so that it will not be Fifteen-year-old Jam and her best friend Redemption have grown up in a Removed, punished by the angels, who have now taken control of this picturesque Revolution, the town of Lucille is finally safe. Akwaeke Emezi’s strikingly imaginative second novel, Pet, offers up a different kind of utopia, one in which abusers have been eradicated.
Generally, a modern utopia would entail a world run on sustainable energy, an end to suffering, and hover cars.
My personal utopia, for example, would have to include a box set of Sex and the City and an endless supply of Starbucks e-gift cards.
Utopia means a great many things to a great many people.
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