A girl is growing in the 80’s in a paradise-like garden and a nuclear family. Her small world is heaven or a serie of unvisible mutilations? Anyway it cannot be forever as it is. Edem has an end. In that case it is the daughter coming of age that will put an end to the child ambivalent happiness.

Maria Fakinou’s short novel dissects the slight changes of the coming of age and the loss of the childhood that comes after reading a lot, being in love, facing illness and death.

Antipodes, 2017, 80 p.