7/1/2023 0 Comments Pet akwaeke emeziJam’s parents strongly affirm and celebrate her trans identity, and Redemption’s three parents are dedicated and caring, giving Jam a second, albeit more chaotic, home. However, their lush imagery and prose coupled with nuanced inclusion of African diasporic languages and peoples creates space for individuals to broadly love and live. We are each other’s magnitude and bond,” taken from Gwendolyn Brooks’ ode to Paul Robeson. There’s a curious vagueness as to the nature of the banished monsters’ crimes, and it takes a few chapters to settle into Emezi’s ( Freshwater, 2018) YA debut, set in an unspecified American town where people are united under the creed: “ We are each other’s harvest. Through their telekinetic connection, Jam learns that though all the monsters were thought to have been purged by the angels, one still roams the house of her best friend, Redemption, and Jam must uncover it. When Pet, giant and grotesque, bursts into her life one night, Jam learns it has emerged to hunt and needs the help of a human who can go places it cannot. Teenager Jam unwittingly animates her mother’s painting, summoning a being through a cross-dimensional portal.
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