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020 _a9781476756554
050 0 0 _aPS3611.U7386
_bM37 2018
082 1 _aFIC KUS
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100 1 _aKushner, Rachel
245 1 4 _aThe Mars room :
_ba novel
_c/ Rachel Kushner
250 _aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
260 _aNew York
_b: Scribner
_c, 2018
300 _a338 p.
_c; 24 cm
520 _aIt'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, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision.
546 _aEnglish.
650 4 _aWomen prisioners
_v--Fiction
655 4 _aMystery fiction
942 _cMO
999 _c243176
_d243176