AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Release Date: May 1, 2018 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Audio Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Narrator: Rachel Kushner Genre: Literary Fiction Buy: Audible | Kindle Synopsis: It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Review: I've had this book in my TBR pile for a while and decided to give it a go while I painted my living room. I was so drawn into this book that there we...