Lullabies for little criminals, by Heather O'Neill

Interestingly, think about the reason why Heather O'Neill, the author of this award-winning novel, wrote a painful memoir. In the article, she suggested that most of the material of her storyteller came from her own experience, Baby (Jules, her heroic addiction father, raised in Akasobi district of Montreal) Did. O'Neill wrote that her novel is "in a childish fictitious field" despite painful memories.

This is a wise choice. Because most of the content that the baby carries is because people can not stand voyeurism reading. Her mother was pregnant when she was 16 years old in a small town in Quebec province and died in a car accident before Jules and her daughter traveled the city. They tried to get rich quickly and when they committed mild crime, they moved from the hotel to the hotel and became more absorbed in addiction.

O'Neal kept her love alive and piously and captured the baby who is trying to respect her father. "I like that he is next to me, I throw stones and I do not go anywhere," she wrote. "I feel perfectly protected." However, as the baby grows, her father becomes increasingly poorer. Once Joel was forced to the Rehabilitation Center, and the baby came into foster care facility, where she experienced short-lived love and security sensations.

Soon, Jules arrived and brought back the baby. Over time, he became addicted again, left the town, and the baby moved with Xaviel of Pimp. Soon she was forced to use heroin and was forced to work for her lover's client. She is still in school and is doing homework between two skills at night

When Jules reappeared, he tried to cut out those who tried to save her. Xavier also had desire and attacked her when he found himself dating a boy. O'Neal also did a good job, protected the baby's perspective, evaluated these terrible adults, and found miracles still in the ruins of her life as a child.

Eventually, I suggested someone to exchange babies. O'Neill 's novel is built on the rivet' s climax, and her narrator 's life and reason seems to be unresolved. Only when Jules barely released his daughter's control, she was able to enter a truly safe place. This is a moving and uneasy novel that explores the dark side of the city of Canada.

Heather O'Neill's first novel, The Little Criminal Lullaby, has earned high acclaim worldwide, including the 2007 Canadian Reading Awards and Hugh MacLennan Fiction Awards winners, the Governor's Fiction Award and the Orange Award. Her second novel "Girl on Saturday Night" was chosen as the Scotiabank Gile Award in 2014. She regularly contributes to CBC Books, CBC Radio, National Public Radio, New York Times Magazine, Gazette (Montreal), and Walrus. She was born in Montreal and lives there.

Heather O'Neill - His first book, Lullabies for Little Criminals, received the Canadian Reading Competition of Canadian Broadcasting Company in 2007 and received its second work, "Saturday Night". That girl was chosen as the Scotiabank Giller Award of 2014 - to the story of the short movie format of Daydreams of Angels. O'Neill is still a lively history spokesperson inside of Montreal but he finds that there is plenty of room to grow in the series to celebrate the magical and madness of the people who are often being driven into social margins I will.

A novel that reads a lullaby of Montreal O'Neill and a girl of "Saturday Night" knows that the wealth of all fairy tales will become the hero. Rosie and Pierrot entrusted with fascinating prose while fighting the enemies of darkness such as poverty, sexual abuse, drug addiction, pornography, while keeping in touch with the newly born poverty. O'Neill 's unique style, which has mastered this dangerous style with skills, provides readers an addictive, incomprehensible, and moving reading. There is humor and there is a whimsical comment. Because our hero uses hope and optimism, such as guiding lights to find each other.

When she was older a little more, O'Neal looked like a lullaby of a small criminal who was 12 years old, such a baby's narrator on the cliffs between the imaginary world as a child - "plastic" swans Furious on average streets in the city It is true ... Old fans in the corner of the room are dangerous red light districts for adults with beach and criminals everywhere at the age of 15 O'Neill is California I ran into Vermont, although I ran away. A state police officer arrested and came home.