Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. This reissue from Text Publishing has an eye-catching cover design by Imogen Stubbs. Vera is likeable: her relationship with her father and with Charlie are a delight her dilemmas and issues are realistic and her strength and maturity are both surprising and gratifying. King is skilled at portraying adolescent characters. King touches on domestic violence, sexual perversion, and teen alcoholism and drug use. King’s plot is wholly plausible, and her characters are familiar from any American town. The story of just what happened between Vera and Charlie is told through a split narrative: present day and seven years earlier, with occasional interjections by Ken Dietz (flow-charts a feature), the now-dead Charlie Kahn, and a local landmark, the Pagoda. At school she sends out “please ignore Vera Dietz” vibes, trying to remain under the radar of one very toxic Jenny Flight and her Detentionhead loser friends, on whom she blames Charlie’s defection and death. So she distracts herself with her attractive twenty-three-year-old co-worker at Pagoda Pizza, James and, despite her father’s alcoholic history, with bottles of vodka.

How can she not when a thousand copies of him fill her dead space whenever she is alone? She knows he wants her to clear his name, but she’s not quite ready to do that yet.

Her ex-best friend-since-age-four, Charlie Kahn is just days dead, her mother left six years ago with the podiatrist, and the most suitable word Vera can find from her Vocab class to describe her accountant father is parsimonious.Įven if Vera is still angry about the betrayal that ended their friendship five months earlier, she misses Charlie. We first meet Vera Dietz when she is almost eighteen, a Senior at High School and working forty hours a week as a Pizza Delivery Technician. Please Ignore Vera Dietz is the second novel by American author, A.S.

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