7/3/2023 0 Comments Akwaeke emezi petSo reading Pet and finding that Jam – a transgender girl – is also bilingual between sign language and voiced language is wonderful and touching. It comes out on some of the words she has trouble pronouncing, or when she is really tired or ill. She is having a lot of support and help and intervention and her spoken language has now caught up, but the sign language is still there. She was almost entirely reliant on sign language – which I had to try to teach myself in order to teach her – when she began school. My daughter – who is now six – has an unidentified speech and communication delay. Now I have to make an admission here: I am biased. Jam and her best friend Redemption go on a hunt through Lucille to find and deal with a monster, aided by the hulking form of Pet. The story focuses on the town of Lucille in a unnamed country and, as so many Young Adult novels do, follows a young adult protagonist: Jam – one of the most vivid and alive characters I’ve come across recently. This is one of those books that leave you in absolute awe.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |