Pick the Lock

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 with punk rock and opera. Jane's mother is an artist constantly on tour to earn a living and support the family. While her mother is away, Jane lives in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their controlling, mendacious father and aunt, both of whom have conspired to confine Jane and Henry’s mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she’s at home. Pick the Lock. follows Jane’s bizarre and brilliant journey to rediscover and reconnect with her mother through punk rock and opera.