Since the death of her mentally ill and alcoholic mother, Mifti's life has been in freefall. She loves her adult siblings but makes life at home impossible by not playing by the rules. When her secret diary is discovered, Mifti sees this as a final act of betrayal and leaves. Enmeshed in Berlin's party scene, Mifti drifts through a haze of sex, drugs and club culture. Fearless, profound, and deeply exhilarating, 16-year-old Helene Hegemann gives a shockingly honest voice to the tragedy of an abused child, with a freshness of prose unprecedented in recent.

Helene Hegemann was born in 1992 and lives in Berlin. Axolotl Roadkill is her first novel.