![]() ![]() There’s a fundamental belief that everyone is trying their best and deserves the benefit of the doubt on that account.īut, okay! What’s the book about? Pet is set in a community called Lucille that has solved all of its problems. When I say that Pet is a kind read, I mean that its author is kind to its characters, and its characters are kind to each other. Admittedly it’s dealing with a really hard issue - child sexual abuse - but it does so with such hope and tenderness. Imagine my surprise when Pet is the gentlest of reads. Because Freshwater was like, a really hard read in places. But still, when I saw the announcement that Emezi would be releasing a YA novel, I was like, REALLY. ![]() Freshwater was one of my best reads of 2018 - the writing was brutal and gorgeous, and I felt elated to be reading the debut of an author of Emezi’s talent, and to know that they had a whole writing career ahead of them and I would get to read all those books. ![]() Hands up everyone who read Freshwater and thought “When will Emezi grace us with a YA novel? That is clearly their metier.” Because I freely admit that I was not among your number. ![]()
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