The Can Opener’s Daughter Illustrated by Grant Snider and decorative arts—textiles

and decorative arts—textiles

the highlight of the year is the Lenten ball—the Mad Women’s Ball—when the great and good come to gawk at the patients of the Salpêtrière dressed up in their finery for one night only

the period of artisticrenaissance that flourished as Imperial Russia’s power waned

An NPR Book of the Year

The award-winning

The Can Opener’s Daughter Illustrated by Grant Snider and decorative arts—textilesIn 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