The release date for the English version of 'The Mars Room' by
Rachel Kushner is May 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In 2003, Romy Hall is incarcerated in the remote Stanville Women's Correctional Facility in the Central Valley of California, beginning the first of two consecutive life terms. The world she was cut off from is outside, along with her little son Jackson and the San Francisco of her childhood. Inside is a new world that Kushner describes with wonderful humour and accuracy: hundreds of women fighting for the barest necessities to live; the bluster and grandeur and casual acts of brutality by guards and convicts alike; and the deadpan oddities of institutional existence.