Room: A Novel
Amazon Best of the   Month, September 2010: In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read   books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his   entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving   nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is   a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world   suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and   extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue'sRoomis rife   with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate   circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enterRoomwill leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very   first time.--Lynette Mong