The Can Opener’s Daughter Illustrated by Grant Snider An NPR Book of the

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The Can Opener’s Daughter Illustrated by Grant Snider An NPR Book of theIn the British Comic Award winning The Motherless Oven, Scarper Lee asked: Who the hell is Vera Pike? In the second part of Rob Davis trilogy, we get a chance to find out. This is Veras story. Grave Acre is a cruel world of opportunity and control. Veras mother is the Weather Clock, the omnipotent and megalomaniacal Prime Minister of Chance. Her father is a can opener. Charting Veras unsettling childhood, the book takes us from her home in Parliament