# The Mars Room

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- Book: [The Mars Room](https://www.bookquiver.com/rachel-kushner/the-mars-room) ([The Mars Room.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rachel-kushner/the-mars-room.md))
- Authors: [Rachel Kushner](https://www.bookquiver.com/rachel-kushner)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9958-996-9
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2019-03-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration, from the author of the internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers . ‘Astounding… this year’s must-read’ ANNE ENRIGHT Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker. Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson. As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line – until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny. * Pre-order Rachel Kushner’s new novel, Creation Lake , now * ‘Breathtaking’ VOGUE ‘One of our most outstanding modern writers’ STYLIST ‘Gritty, empathetic, finely rendered’ MARGARET ATWOOD (on Twitter)