Room - Emma Donoghue
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To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. Its where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jacks imaginationthe snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells, the imaginary world projected through the TV, the coziness of Wardrobe below Mas clothes, where she tucks him in safely at night in case Old Nick comes., Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, its the prison where shes been held since she was nineteenfor seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in that eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But Jacks curiosity is building alongside her own desperationand she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer., Told in the poignant and funny voice of Jack, Room is a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child. It is a shocking, exhilarating, and riveting novelbut always deeply human and always moving. Room is a place
