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REVIEWS: The Mars Room
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FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and LONGLISTED for the
ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL. From twice National Book Award–nominated
Rachel Kushner comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping
novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America.
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.
Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room demonstrates new
levels of mastery and depth in Kushner’s work. It is audacious
and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined.
Characters: 86. Amazon rating: 3 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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