This book is an amazingly realistic account of a 12 year old street child, Baby, with a drug-taking and irrational but loving father, Jules. She is very bright, but due to decisions by adults, becomes a drug taking prostitute living with her pimp. Some parts were so difficult to read that I had to skim them.
As in most Heather O’Neill novels, the story takes place in Montreal, a setting which I enjoy. And as in all the Heather O’Neill novels I have read, there is an uplifting ending. Thank god for cousin Janine in Val de Loups.
