I'm not saying anything more about the can opener.
But read at least until the first blood bool, because then you'll be on your way to finding out why daddy always cut deep.
At fifty pages in I can understand your concern that it's going to be a drawn out drama of a book. But you have to get to the bad gunky, booya moon, the laughers, the long boy with the piebald side,.....
Man the more I think about that book the more I like it.