Akwaeke Emezi

Carla Bataller Estruch

>En la ciudad de Lucille ya no queda ningún monstruo, o eso les enseñan a los niños. Jam ha crecido con esta lección. Pero cuando conoce a Mascota, una criatura hecha de cuernos y colores y garras que surge de uno de los cuadros de su madre y de una gota de sangre, la joven deberá reconsiderar todas sus creencias, porque Mascota ha venido a cazar un monstruo. Jam deberá luchar para proteger a sus seres queridos y descubrir la verdad, pero ¿cómo vas a salvar el mundo de los monstruos si nadie reconoce que existen?
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>«Mascota», de le escritore nigeriane Akwaeke Emezi, es una novela poética que mezcla la ciencia ficción con la fantasía para hablar sobre quiénes son los verdaderos monstruos en una sociedad aparentemente utópica.

Mascota

Cloey Yerger

“You know that’s what a lot of religion was, right? Just made-up things used to scare people so they could control us better.”

“Monsters don’t look like anything, doux-doux. That’s the whole point. That’s the whole problem.”

this book already has so many amazing quotes.

“Good and innocent, they not the same thing; they don’t wear the same face.”

They don’t make evil like they used to.

   Politicians make policies putting children in cages and allow big companies to pour poison into our air and water. But they will say they are just doing it to support business, and that we’ll all reap the benefit of the poison eventually. There are people who scream their hatred to the skies, burn torches and mock those who are different from themselves. Even they have their excuses, usually something about protecting a “way of life.” There are no villains anymore.

Lindsay

(because, as the angels pointed out, you shouldn’t use a nation as a basis to choose which deaths you mourn; nations aren’t even real),

There is the unseen, waiting to be seen, existing only in the spaces we admit we do not see yet.

How do we know we’re doing the right thing? she asked.

There is no right thing, Pet replied. There is only the thing that needs to be done.

Mascota quotes

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