Posted on 18/11/06
Street illegal
SkidsBy Cathleen WithArsenal Pulp, 152 pages, $19.95When we think of detox, we think of celebs breaking a pill or coke habit, or of an ordinary drunk desperate to not lose wife and kids. In the first story of this impressive debut collection, Cathleen With introduces a keener sense of waste. Jesse is 16 and a street kid, or "skid" in the unofficial parlance of social work. After a bona fide suicide attempt, she's being weaned off not only drugs, but the selling of her body to pay for them.
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