Redemption is shocked to learn Uncle Hibiscus, his beloved mentor, has been hurting and maybe molesting the little boy. She doesn’t want to believe there is anything wrong with Redemption’s family, whom she’s known most of her life. Jam continues to wonder if the wrathful Pet can be trusted. When Redemption sees Pet for himself, he is awed and wants to help Pet and Jam find the monster. All she sees is his happy family, including Redemption’s three parents his little brother, Moss and aunts and uncles.
Pet urges her to go to Redemption’s house and look for things she hasn’t seen before. Jam makes her parents think she has sent Pet away.
Jam wants to return Pet to the canvas, but she wonders what will happen if Pet is telling the truth and Redemption is really in danger. Pet says there is a monster living in Redemption’s house. Jam prepares to do as they’ve said, but Pet urges her to think it through first. Since it arrived through the shedding of Jam’s blood, only she can return it to the canvas. This isn’t the first time one of Bitter’s paintings has come to life. Jam’s parents are disturbed, but not surprised, when they see Pet. Jam doesn’t realize Bitter has embedded razor blades in the canvas. About this time, her artist mother, Bitter, creates a painting of a hideous creature. Jam begins to wonder about real angels, the kind in old religious books.
The society’s heroic people, known as “angels,” banished them all. Like other school children, Jam and her best friend, Redemption, are taught there used to be monsters who did cruel things in their town of Lucille. Guns, religion and prejudices have been abolished. Jam, a transgender, Black teen, lives in a future society of relative peace.
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