Wilmington Memorial Library

The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner

Label
The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The Mars Room
Oclc number
1006798259
Responsibility statement
Rachel Kushner
Summary
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
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