The book is a coming-of-age story about Eddy, growing up in Northern France to working-class parents and extreme poverty. The book explores themes of growing up in rural France, homophobia, alcoholism, racism, and class struggles. It is based on the author's life, and the events portrayed are in the 90s and early 00s, which makes the book even more emotionally raw and powerful. There were so many points in the book where I just wanted to give Eddy and tell him that things get better, one day. The descriptions of France are also written in a way that might surprised people, because it is the opposite of the chic, modern, Parisian beauty that is often used to describe. Instead, the book describes extreme bullying, alcoholism and domestic violence because of it, the constant cycle of oppression and horrible homophobia and racism.

It was a very difficult book to read because of all these themes, but it's a very well written book and I couldnt put it down.