Lucky Linderhof's beautiful, dysfunctional mother had taken refuge from a failed marriage in exotic cocktails and weird furnishings - until the fateful day she decided to let out her basement flat to a blond, tall Texan who was uncannily like her ex-husband, except for the look in his eyes. Lucky is thirteen, cute, sassy and worryingly precocious. She's also in a juvenile detention facility awaiting trial for the murder of the man she calls Roger Fishbite.
Emily Prager turns the Lolita story on its head, revamping it for our ambivalent, talk-show times, in the half-innocent, half-knowing voice of the nymphet herself.
