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The Mars room / Rachel Kushner.
Publication details: London : Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, 2018.Description: 340 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781910702680
- 9781910702673
- Reformatories for women -- Fiction
- Female offenders -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Social problem films
- Women prisoners -- Fiction
- Children of prisoners -- Fiction
- Female offenders -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Reformatories for women -- Fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- 813.6 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | KUS | Available | 068088 |
Total reserves: 0
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. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. 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.
