![]() He’s a popular kid and even though Julian has “only been in this school for a little while…heard his name a hundred times, mostly from girls who are in love with him.” Adam is happy, clumsy, and popular.Īdam and Julian have history, though. There he can dream about the life he used to have.Īdam is a senior. He eats lunch alone in a small room in the attic of the auditorium. When he’s called to the principal’s office he calls himself “a microscopic boy” his English teacher tells him he’s “too quiet” and the other kids are horrible to him. He has just started high school and he is friendless and often in trouble at school – even though he does his level best to make himself invisible. ![]() It’s horrifying and heart-warming in equal measure. ![]() This is a book with so much to say, but its messages are never didactic. ![]() From the moment I met Julian and Adam, the two narrators of Robin Roe’s debut novel A List of Cages, I was immediately invested. ![]()
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