![]() Strangely, almost miraculously, these qualities are the very things that render him almost impervious to the designs of the chief tormenters in the school. All Cap has are his nonviolent values and his honest naïveté. The difference is, they have the tools to deal with anyone who veers from the mainstream: practical jokes, bullying, and/or sympathetic distancing. Wild, vicious, ugly.” Cap’s classmates are as bewildered by Cap as he is by them. I’d read about physical violence, but this was the first time I’d witnessed it in real life. On his first day, Cap witnesses a fight between two students: “I was horrified. He moves in with a social worker, to the mortification of her terminally cool teenage daughter, and begins his education anew. ![]() When Rain is hospitalized, Cap must temporarily join a culture of an entirely different hue: that of Claverage (a.k.a. As one of only two remaining members on a remote alternative farm commune, Cap is homeschooled by the other, his grandmother, Rain. ![]() But he has no idea how to read the social map of the traditional American public school. ![]() ![]() At age 13, Cap (for Capricorn) knows how to spell barometer and psychedelic, how to build a Foucault pendulum, and how to grow plums. ![]()
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