Lullabies for little criminals : a novel
(CD Audiobook)

Title from disc label.

Compact discs.

Read by Miriam McDonald with an introduction read by the author.

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 Jules₂ slang for heroin and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real article. 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 she₂s been choreographed in a dance.