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THE MARS ROOM

by Kushner, Rachel

New York Times bestseller * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * New York Times Notable Book Of 2018 * Time Magazine’s #1 Fiction Title of the Year * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal *

From twice National Book Award–nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called “the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. 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, which Kushner evokes with great humor and

precision.

THE MARS ROOM demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner’s work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. As James Wood said in The New Yorker, her fiction “succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive.”

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“Brilliant and devastating… a heartbreaking, true, and nearly flawless novel.”

Reviews: NPR

richly textured

“With her richly textured third novel, Kushner certifies her place as one of the great American novelists of the 21st century.”

Reviews: Entertainment Weekly