by Karen ConnellyReviewed by Amy Stewart
The Lizard Cage is one of the most delicately woven and luminous stories that I have ever read. Connelly is a writer of the capital W variety. She is able to distill life's primal joys and heart crushing truths into simple lyrical images that make one nod in recognition even as one cringes at the pain. Connelly tells the story of Teza, a political prisoner in Burma. From within his cage of solitary confinement Teza's life becomes in extricably tangled and forever linked with a compassionate jailer and an orphan boy who finds shelter within the jail's walls. I did not want this book to end and I will never forget it.
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