{"product_id":"bitter","title":"Bitter","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to PET that explores both the importance and cost of social revolution--and how youth lead the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBitter is an aspiring artist who has been invited to cultivate her talents at a special school in the town of Lucille. Surrounded by other creative teens, she can focus on her painting--though she hides a secret from everyone around her. Meanwhile, the streets of Lucille are filled with social unrest. This is Lucille before the Revolution. A place of darkness and injustice. A place where a few ruling elites control the fates of the many.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe young people of Lucille know they deserve better--they aren't willing to settle for this world that the adults say is \"just the way things are.\" They are protesting, leading a much-needed push for social change. But Bitter isn't sure where she belongs--in the art studio or in the streets. And if she does find a way to help the Revolution while being true to who she is, she must also ask: what are the costs?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi looks at the power of youth, protest, and art in this timely and provocative novel, a companion to National Book Award Finalist Pet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for PET:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The word hype was invented to describe books like this.\" --Refinery29\u003cbr\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut. . . . Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities.\" --The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Like [Madeleine] L'Engle, Akwaeke Emezi asks questions of good and evil and agency, all wrapped up in the terrifying and glorious spectacle of fantastical theology.\" --NPR\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53880738447670,"sku":"9780593309063","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0961\/6893\/5734\/files\/9780593309063.jpg?v=1775503192","url":"https:\/\/kindredbook.shop\/products\/bitter","provider":"Kindred Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}