The Mars Room
By: Rachel Kushner.
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781476756554
Description: 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. The deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision.