Böcker av Jennifer Clement

A tender and moving account of Jean-Michel Basquiat's life as seen through the eyes of his muse

**Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2018**`My mother called anyone or anything that seemed alone, or ended up in the wrong place, a stray. There were stray people, stray dogs, stray bullets, and stray butterflies.'Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back.

Offers a selection of poems, as well as the complete "Lady of the Broom" sequence, together with selections from the author's first two books.

'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.'On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Because the stolen girls don't come back. Ladydi is determined to get out, to find a life that offers more than just the struggle to survive.