The Mars Room Plot Summary

In the mars room rachel kushner provides excerpts from ted kaczynski s journals to draw parallels between the unabomber and her character gordon hauser the man that teaches an english class at stanville prison.

The mars room plot summary.

Outside is the world from which she has been severed. But if you were me you would have done what i did. Plot 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. The san francisco of her youth and her young son jackson.

The mars room of the title refers to the strip club where romy once worked where having showered or not being noticeably pregnant gave you a competitive edge. Like all great fiction the mars room is by native instinct a carnival of human complexity emphasising the vast unknowability of human lives against systems and ideologies that would reduce them. The old man said he d help her with giving her money for a taxi but they should go to his hotel room first and have a drink. The novel won the 2018 prix médicis étranger and was shortlisted for that year s man booker prize.

The mars room rachel kushner 2018 scribner 352 pp. The mars room 2018 american author rachel kushner s third novel follows single mother romy hall as she begins a double life sentence in a maximum security prison. 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. Romy went to meet with her friend eva to go to a midnight show at punk rock club when they were 11 but she got lost and asked an old man for directions.

The same hierarchies and rules. The san francisco of her youth and her young son jackson.