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Lullabies for Little Criminals
Heather O'Neill
10th Anniversary
Harper Perennial
April 2016
On Sale: April 5, 2016
ISBN: 0062468472
EAN: 9780062468475
Kindle: B01825FP36
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Contemporary
Heather O’Neill’s 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 “chocolate milk” is Jules’ 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 she’s 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 girl—and what the johns don’t 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 O’Neill’s debut novel blew readers away when
it was first published ten years ago. Now it’s 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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