One day, Jam cuts her hand on a razor blade embedded in one of her mother’s paintings and bleeds on the canvas. Jam’s parents, Bitter and Aloe, support Jam’s curiosity about monsters and encourage her to think critically. The protagonist of the novel is a 15-year-old Black transgender girl named Jam who selectively uses sign language to communicate (she only speaks verbally to her mother) and has anxiety, often communicating in sign language. The residents love their peaceful town, and the adults maintain that there are no more monsters left in Lucille. The town of Lucille, the birthplace of the Revolution, is peopled by African Americans from across the diaspora. Anti-gay and anti-trans hatred as well as racism are now relics of the past. These “angels” represent the revolutionaries who abolished prisons, prosecuted and rehabilitated corrupt police officers, and removed statues of slave-owners and racists. In the future, children are taught that “angels” rid America of monsters and the world is now completely safe. In Pet, “monsters” represent all the evils, systemic inequalities, and injustice that exist in a society. Pet takes place in a utopian future after a revolution that vanquished all monsters from the world. Please be aware that Pet includes depictions of child sexual and physical abuse.
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