The Mars Room

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Call Number: Fiction / Kushner, Rachel, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Kushner, Rachel
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Kushner, Rachel	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Kushner, Rachel	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Kushner, Rachel	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Kushner, Rachel	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Kushner, Rachel	4-week checkout	Due 04-21-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Kushner, Rachel	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Kushner, Rachel	4-week checkout	Due 05-07-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Kushner, Rachel	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024

"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. 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; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner's work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined."-- Provided by publisher.

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COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Stand out story submitted by juleen on August 31, 2018, 4:45pm This was an incredibly compelling read. Big issues of incarceration, poverty, race, sexism are made personal through the eyes of the individuals affected in the story. Raw, heartbreaking, and even beautiful, this is a story that will stick with you. Weeks after reading, I still find myself wondering about the characters and what happened to them after the book ends. If you enjoy the book as much as I did, I recommend listening to the CBC "Writers & Company" podcast interview of the author.

I loved this book submitted by dharmaraell on June 19, 2019, 7:19pm Very dark, but I couldn't stop reading and finished within a couple of days!