The Mars Room
Kushner, Rachel2019
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Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy's estranged mother. Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. These are the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour and precision.
Main title:
The Mars Room / Rachel Kushner.
Author:
Kushner, Rachel, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2019.
Collation:
339 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2018.
ISBN:
9780099589969 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1162798