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The Mars Room

By Rachel Kushner

Book information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2018
ISBN
1476756554, 9781476756554
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
441 kB (451676 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
338\0
Time added
2018-12-08 15:01:33

Description

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision.

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