A woman is caught in the crossfire between the past and the future in this part-spy novel, part-profound treatise on human history
The Mars Room
Written by Rachel Kushner
- Shortlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2018
- Published by Jonathan Cape
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Rachel Kushner combines a gritty portrait of life on the margins of contemporary America with a stinging indictment of the US penal system
Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living; her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of her estranged mother. Inside is the new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials of survival – the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike, allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes.
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Rachel Kushner an internationally bestselling author whose work has been translated into 27 languages
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