Motherless, and still living with her heroin-addict father, thirteen- year-old Baby vacillates between childhood comfort and adult temptation. Her blossoming beauty captures the attention of a charismatic and dangerous local pimp who runs an army of sad, slavishly devoted girls. And when an escape disguised as betrayal threatens to crush Baby's spirit, she ultimately realizes that the power to save herself rests in her hands.
Awards
Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction, 2007.
Notes
"Copy 7 was donated to the library by Henia Lifshitz."