Faldistoireâs grandfather thinks heâs a ghost. Sylvieâs mother reads tarot and summons stormclouds to mete her witchâs justice. Behind his Dad of the Year demeanour, SĂ©bastienâs father hides dark designs. Itâs Croustineâs grandfather
who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, but itâs his father, the cannily-named Kevin Lambert, who always seems to be nearby when tragedy strikes, and in the cemetery, under the baleful eyes of toads, small graves are dug
one after the other: Chicoutimi, Quebec, is a dangerous place for children. But these young victims of rape, arbitrary violence, and senseless murder keep coming back from the dead. They return to school, explore their sexualities, keep
tabs on grown-up sinsâand plot their apocalyptic retribution.
Surreal and darkly comic, this debut novel by Kevin Lambert, one of the most celebrated and controversial writers to come out of Quebec in recent memory, takes the adult world to taskâand then takes revenge.