The Mars Room
By: Rachel Kushner
Contributors: Gordon, Kim, 1953- composer, performer
Edition: Unabridged.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Number of pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781508244370
Subjects: Literary; Inmates of institutions; General; Crime; Women prisoners; FICTION; Fiction
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.
Notes: Title from disc label.

Compact discs.

Read by the author, with music by Kim Gordon.