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LULLABIES FOR LITTLE CRIMINALS
By: Heather ONeill
10th Anniversary
Harper Perennial
April 2016
On Sale: April 5, 2016
ISBN: 0062468472
EAN: 9780062468475
Kindle: B01825FP36
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Contemporary
Heather OβNeillβs critically acclaimed debut novel, with a new introduction from the author to celebrate its ten-year anniversary Baby, all of thirteen years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father, Jules, is scarcely more than a child himself and is always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that βchocolate milkβ is Julesβ slang for heroin and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real thing. But she takes vivid delight in the scrappy bits of happiness and beauty that find their way to her, and moves through the threat of the streets as if sheβs been choreographed in a dance. Soon, though, a hazard emerges that is bigger than even her hard-won survival skills can handle. Alphonse, the local pimp, has his eye on her for his new girlβand what the johns donβt take he covets for himself. If Baby cannot learn to become her own salvation, his dark world threatens to claim her, body and soul. Channeling the artlessly affecting voice of her thirteen-year-old heroine with extraordinary accuracy and power, Heather OβNeillβs debut novel blew readers away when it was first published ten years ago. Now itβs sure to capture its next decade of readers as Baby picks her pathway along the edge of the abyss to arrive at a place of redemption, and of love. Featuring a new introduction from the author
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