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‘Boys In Gilded Cages’ Rips the Heart Out of the Young Adult genre

In an extraordinary feat of literary misanthropy, filmmaker and artist Jarod Powell has produced a novel that seems to have leapt from headlines buried long ago. Called Boys In Gilded Cages, it is told by the often-unreliable narration of Eric Redmond, a small-town preacher’s son who is involved in the local meth trade. In Powell’s […]