The Mars Room: Rachel Kushner

Shortlisted For The Man Booker Prize 2018
A New York Times Bestseller
From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration.
Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women`s Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.
Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson.
As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line - until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.
`Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers` Stylist
`More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful` New York Times
`Breathtaking` Vogue