Publisher's Synopsis
Fiction. A teenage girl named Shrap is sold into sex slavery by her father in exchange for a business. What follows is a story that is determined to tell itself, and a girl whose body and mind are struggling to become real through this broken telling. A CHILD IS BEING KILLED is a vessel that holds the problem posed by philosopher Maurice Blanchot: What does it mean to utter, "A child is being killed..."? What is the nature and shape of this kind of non- presence? Is it even possible to speak of? At once dissociated and lucid, Shrap's story stubbornly creates an existence out of Shrap, drawing a complicated portrait of her mind and body amidst a world of men who actively erase her.
