The Mars Room

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018</b><br><br><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b><br><br><b>From the author of internationally acclaimed <i>The Flamethrowers &#150; </i>a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love friendship and incarceration.</b><br><br>Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women&#146;s Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.<br><br> 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. <br><br> 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 &#150; until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.<br><br><b>'Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers' <i>STYLIST</i></b><br><b><br>'More knowing about prison life </b>[<b>than <i>Orange Is The New Black</i></b>]...<b> so powerful' </b><i><b>NEW YORK TIMES</b></i><br><b><br>'Breathtaking' <i>VOGUE</i></b></p>