The goddess of fireflies
Subtitle: a novel
By: Geneviève Pettersen ; translated from the French by Neil Smith
Contributors: Smith, Neil, 1964- translator
Series: The fiction series at Véhicule Press; Fiction series at Véhicule Press
Publisher: Esplanade Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781550654370; 9781550654431
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Teenage girls; Fiction; Parent and teenager; Adolescentes; Romans, nouvelles; Parents et adolescents
Work titles: Déesse des mouches à feu
Description: The year is 1996, and small-town life for 14-year-old Catherine is made up of punk rock, skaters, shoplifting, and the ghost of Kurt Cobain. Her parents are too busy divorcing to pay her headful of unspent angst much attention. But after she tries mess a PCP variant for the first time, her budding rebellion begins to spiral out of control.
Notes: Translation of: La déesse des mouches à feu.

"The fiction series at Véhicule Press."

Issued also in electronic format.

Translated from the French.

Archambault Prize 2015