Lullabies for Little Criminals (P.S.) - Softcover

A vivid portrait of life on skid row. --"People""

This is a beautiful book, all the more remarkable because its harrowing tale is (virtuosically) told without a trace of self-pity or bathos. There are phrases in here that will make you laugh out loud, and others that will stop your heart. A definite triumph. --David Rakoff, author of "Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish""

A poignant tale . O Neill brings the setting to life. --"OK!," five stars"

A nuanced, endearing coming-of-age novel you won t want to miss. --"Quill & Quire" (Canada)"

Vivid and poignant.... A deeply moving and troubling novel. --"Independent" (London)"

O Neill is a tragicomedienne par excellence . You will not want to miss this tender depiction of some very mean streets. --"Montreal Review of Books""

O Neill somehow infuses her troubling story with a kind of heartbreaking innocence . She is a wonderful stylist and the voice she has created for Baby is original and altogether captivating. --"Booklist""

A winsome debut novel. --"Kirkus""

Baby s precocious introspection feels pitch perfect.... Tear-jerkingly effective. --"Publishers Weekly""

Dreamy prose.... Baby s unique voice and the glimmer of hope provided by her intelligence and imaginative spirit live on in the mind long after you have closed the book. --"Waterstones Books Quarterly" (London)"

Living with her heroin addict father, Jules, thirteen-year-old Baby catches the eye of the charismatic Alphonse, who possesses a string of girls who do his bidding, and is sent to reform school, but when she ultimately gains her freedom, she begins to discover that only she possesses the power to save herself. A first novel. Original. 30,000 first printing.