You Will Love What You Have Killed

Faldistoires grandfather thinks hes a ghost. Sylvies mother reads tarot and summons stormclouds to mete her witchs justice. Behind his Dad of the Year demeanour, Sébastiens father hides dark designs. Its Croustines grandfather who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, but its 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 sinsand 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 taskand then takes revenge.