Overview
From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family. Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane’s mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she’s at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videos—her lifetime. A.S. King's latest surrealist masterpiece follows Jane’s bizarre and brilliant journey to reconnect with her mother by breaking out of her shell and composing a punk opera.
From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family.
Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane''s mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Janes mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever shes at home. And then there''s weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videosher lifetime.
A.S. King''s latest surrealist masterpiece follows Janes bizarre and brilliant journey to reconnect with her mother by breaking out of her shell and composing a punk opera.
Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane''s mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Janes mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever shes at home. And then there''s weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videosher lifetime.
A.S. King''s latest surrealist masterpiece follows Janes bizarre and brilliant journey to reconnect with her mother by breaking out of her shell and composing a punk opera.
- | Author: A.S. King
- | Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
- | Publication Date: Sep 24, 2024
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9780593353974
- | ISBN-10: 0593353978
