**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**\'Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers.\' STYLIST\'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]...
Through Romy – and through a cast of astonishing characters populating Mars Room – Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex..
Romy sees the future stretch out ahead of her in a long, unwavering line – until news from outside brings a ferocious urgency to her existence, challenging her to escape her own destiny and culminating in a climax of almost unbearable intensity.
Allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks, and stories shared through sewage pipes.
Daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike.
The relentlessly deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour and precision.
And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy’s estranged mother.
Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive.
The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living.
Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. so powerful.\' NEW YORK TIMES\'Breathtaking.\' VOGUERomy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**\'Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers.\' STYLIST\'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]..
