She can speak and does so when the situation warrants it, but Redemption and others accept her choices and communicate with her on all levels. Jam is selectively mute and depends on an array of communications, including sign language and feelings. Years passed and everyone lived with one certainty: There are no monsters roaming free in Lucille. The revolutionaries, or “angels,” declared that the world was safe and people stopped worrying about the possibility of a monster in their midst.
Everyone who was a “monster” toward other people was locked away. Before Jam and Redemption were born, society underwent a major revolution. Kindle AZW file.Ī teenage girl named Jam and her best friend, Redemption, live in a town called Lucille. Penguin Random House, New York, New York, 2019. (Feb.The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Akwaeke Emezi, Pet. Simultaneously brave, conscientious, and fearful, Bitter is all the more memorable for her complexity as Emezi illustrates in this steadfast volume the discipline of hope-like art, something to be worked at and practiced again and again. Emezi peoples this timely, urgently told first-person story with vivacious queer characters of color who have the agency to define the future for themselves and their city.
When anti-protest brutality results in a life-changing injury for one of her friends, Bitter creates her most fearsome creature yet to seek revenge. There, she interacts with Miss Virtue, who runs the school her friend Blessing, who keeps Bitter’s hair cut short and the temporarily animate creatures Bitter creates from her own blood-streaked drawings. Surrounded on every side by escalating violence (“Everyone knew someone else who had died from something they didn’t have to die from”) and protests, Bitter “thought it was ridiculous that adults wanted young people to be the ones saving the world,” and stays within Eucalyptus’s walls, safe inside the protective bubble of her art. In this companion to National Book Award finalist Pet, Emezi introduces Bitter, a Black 17-year-old who attends private boarding art school Eucalyptus in the middle of Lucille, a city that’s on the brink of youth-led political change.
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