Other People's Pets av R.L. Maizes

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<p>¿ <b>2021 Colorado Book Awards Winner</b> ¿<br><b><br>R.L. Maizes''s <i>Other People¿s Pets</i> 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.</b><br><br>La La Fine relates to animals better than she does to other people. 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.<br><br>La La¿s world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. 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. Left alone with her father¿a locksmith by trade, and a thief in reality¿La La is denied a regular life. She becomes her father¿s accomplice, calming the watchdog while he strips families of their most precious belongings.<br><br>When her father¿s luck runs out