The Mars Room : a novel /
Kushner, Rachel,
The Mars Room : a novel / - First Scribner hardcover edition. - 338 pages ; 24 cm
"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"--
9781476756554 1476756554
2017061764
Women prisoners--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Sex workers--Fiction.
Single mothers--Effect of imprisonment on--Fiction.
Prisons--California--Central Valley--Fiction.
Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PS3611.U7386 / M37 2018
813/.6
The Mars Room : a novel / - First Scribner hardcover edition. - 338 pages ; 24 cm
"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"--
9781476756554 1476756554
2017061764
Women prisoners--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Sex workers--Fiction.
Single mothers--Effect of imprisonment on--Fiction.
Prisons--California--Central Valley--Fiction.
Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PS3611.U7386 / M37 2018
813/.6