In Scarper Lees world, parents dont make childrenchildren make parents. Scarpers father is his pride and joy, a wind-powered brass construction with a billowing sail. His mother is a Bakelite hairdryer. In this world it rains knives, and household appliances have souls. There are also no birthdaysonly deathdays. Scarpers deathday is just three weeks away, and he clings to the mundane repetition of his life at home and high school for comfort. Rob Daviss dark graphic novel is an odyssey through a bizarre, distorted teenage landscape. When Scarpers father mysteriously disappears, he sets off with Vera Pike (the new girl at school) and Castro Smith (the weirdest kid in town) to find him. Facing home truths and knife storms at every turn, will Scarper even survive until his deathday?