Other Peoples Pets
Other Peoples Pets 2021 Colorado Book Awards FinalistR.L. Abandoned by a mother who never wanted a family, raised by a locksmith-turned-thief father, La La looks to pets when it feels like the rest…
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Other Peoples Pets
2021 Colorado Book Awards FinalistR.L. Abandoned by a mother who never wanted a family, raised by a locksmith-turned-thief father, La La looks to pets when it feels like the rest of the world conspires against her.La La's world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. Maizes's Other People's Pets examines the gap between the families we're born into and those we create, and the danger that holding on to a troubled past may rob us of the future.La La Fine relates to animals better than she does to other people.
Left alone with her father--a locksmith by trade, and a thief in reality--La La is denied a regular life. First, when La La falls through thin ice on a skating trip, and again when the accusations of "unfit mother" feel too close to true. She becomes her father's accomplice, calming the watchdog