Faldistoire's grandfather thinks he's a ghost. Sylvie's mother reads tarot and summons stormclouds to mete her witch's justice. Behind his Dad of the Year demeanour, Sébastien's father hides dark designs. It's Croustine's grandfather who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, but it's 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 sins?and 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 task?and then takes revenge.

Born in 1992, Kevin Lambert grew up in Chicoutimi in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec. He graduated from the University of Montreal with a Master's degree in Creative Writing and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing under the direction of Catherine Mavrikakis.

Heliotrope published his first novel, Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, in March 2017, and his second, Querelle de Roberval, in 2018. His article "Can We Write Literary History Backwards?," on Jean Basile's novel Me déshabiller n'a jamais été une tâche facile, won Spirale's Pierre L'Hérault Prize for Emerging Criticism in 2017. Kevin Lambert is a bookseller at Le Port de tête in Montreal.