Fiction. Alice Darling has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She's never had a boyfriend and she can't do laundry. And then she meets Nellcott, who works in a record store and wears black eyeliner. Soon, though she doesn't want to admit it, Nellcott has become her darling. Golda Fried's debut novel, NELLCOTT IS MY DARLING, is a dreamy, enchanting delight. Fried-whose first story collection Darkness Then a Blown Kiss was an underground hit-captures the awkwardness and courage of youth with, in Peter Trachtenberg's words, the "heartbreaking lightness of a Yo La Tengo song."