The Mars Room Plot

In the mars room rachel kushner provides excerpts from ted kaczynski s journals to draw parallels between the unabomber and her character gordon hauser the man that teaches an english class at stanville prison.

The mars room plot. Romy is the primary first person narrator of the novel. Incarceration in the mars room resembles the blizzard that bites the hero of london s to build a fire. The mars room shuffles along shackled with so much importance that it barely has room to move. From twice national book award nominated rachel kushner comes a spectacularly compelling heart stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary america.

An all encompassing system that s inescapable and deadly. The san francisco of her youth and her young son jackson. Rachel kushner s novel primarily follows the life of romy hall a single mother who in 2003 at the age of twenty nine began a double life sentence at stanville women s correctional facility a maximum security prison in california s central valley. The mars room 2018 american author rachel kushner s third novel follows single mother romy hall as she begins a double life sentence in a maximum security prison.

Before this she worked as a stripper in a club called the mars room. Plot 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. 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. Domestic terrorist responsible for mailing or planting 16 bombs from 1978 1995 killing three people and injuring 23.

The mars room grabbed me from the get go and i was hooked. Outside is the world from which she has been severed. Romy hall is serving two life sentences for murdering her stalker in front of a child. The novel won the 2018 prix médicis étranger and was shortlisted for that year s man booker prize.