Lola in the mirror

Lola in the mirror

Trent Dalton

Book - 2024

A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat and the police who want to make them pay. Home is now a van with four flat tires in a junkyard by the edge of a river. The girl has no name, because names are dangerous when you're on the run. But she has a vision of a life as an artist. A life outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld. A life of love with the boy who's waiting for her on the bridge above the deadly river. And once her mother can no longer protect her, there's only one person who can help her realize her dreams. That person is Lola. But she has to find her first.

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Subjects
Parent and teenager > Fiction.
Fugitives from justice > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Homeless persons > Fiction.
Artists > Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Novels.
Genres
Bildungsromans
Novels
Published
New York : Harper Perennial 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Trent Dalton (author)
Other Authors
Paul (illustrator) Heppell (illustrator)
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition
Item Description
Originally published in 2023 in Australia by Fourth Estate/HarperCollins.
Physical Description
490 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN
9780063414747
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

A 17-year-old artist lives with her mother in a rusted van by the Brisbane River, the latest in a series of temporary shelters. Her mother tells the girl that she had to stab her father in the throat to escape his violence and won't tell the girl her real name. When her mother dives into the river to rescue a toddler, the girl's hopes of ever learning the truth disappear with her mother into the rushing waters. Left on her own, she begins delivering drugs for a seafood shop owner named Flora Box. As her life begins to crumble around her, the girl imagines how her sketches will someday be displayed in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, her life story a tragic saga shared with viewers of her art. This imagined future helps her create meaning for the darkest corners of her world. When she starts working with a detective to bring down Flora's underworld enterprise, she begins to discover the truth about her past and the woman who raised her. The nameless girl is rendered with aching precision in Dalton's (All Our Shimmering Skies, 2021) astounding novel, which peels away preconceptions about houselessness, criminality, and addiction with empathy and grace.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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