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Room
Author(s): Emma Donoghue

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. . . . Its where he was born. Its where he and Ma eat and sleep and play andlearn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jacks imagination — the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells;the imaginary world projected through the TV; the coziness ofWardrobe beneath Mas clothes, where she tucks him in safelyat night, in case Old Nick comes.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, its the prison whereshes been held since she was nineteen — for seven long years.Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life forhim in that eleven-by-eleven foot space. But Jacks curiosity isbuilding alongside Mas own desperation, and she knows thatRoom cannot contain either indefinitely. . . . Told in the inventive,funny and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience — and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.

Review(s):
Claustrophobic, controversial, brilliant . . . inventive, tense, and stringently intelligent.
Remarkable . . . heartrending. . . . Both gripping and poignant, its a tribute to human resourcefulness and resilience and extremity, and a stirring portrait of a mothers devotion.
An astounding, terrifying novel.
Thrilling and at moments palm-sweatingly harrowing.

OLA Evergreen Award

ISBN:9781554688326