The Mars Room

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Women prisoners,  Children of prisoners,  Mothers and sons, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2018-05-20,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Prisonnières,  Romans, nouvelles,  Enfants de prisonniers,  FICTION,  Literary,  General,  Crime,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / General,  FICTION / Crime,  MYSTERY,  Inmates of institutions,  Fiction, family life, general

Places: San Francisco (Calif.),  California