The Mars Room
byRachel Kushner
Genres: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration. Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker. Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson. As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line - until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destin.
Language
en
Published on
03/07/2019
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780099589969
Who is this book for? Readers interested in contemporary issues, women's stories, and literary fiction.
Topics Separation from societyViolence in prisonAbsurdities of prison lifeInstitutional livingStruggles of incarcerated individualsWomen in prisonMotherhoodSurvivalFamily relationshipsCoping mechanismsLoveFamily
MoodMelancholic, Humorous
Female protagonist
HumorOccasional Humor
RomanceMinor Subplot
ViolenceModerate
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
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