num_pages: 338
description: Its 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Womens Correctional Facility deep in Californias 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.
language: English
title: The Mars Room
publisher: Scribner