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The mars room is a provocative raveworthy exploration of choices or indeed the absence of any perceived choice for adolescent and teen female criminals on the lower echelon of the socio economic scale who grow up sexually abused addicted to street drugs and or engaged in a sex related trade because they ve had no choice in where how and by. A brutal unforgiving and often grimly funny tour de force of wasted lives the mars room makes most other contemporary fiction seem timid and predictable. The washington post the guardian goodreads book companion finalist for the man booker prize and longlisted for the andrew carnegie medal. 44 quotes from the mars room.

See featured authors answering questions. Find books like the mars room from the world s largest community of readers. Readers questions about the mars room. A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life was going to change it and every day the lament became merel.

You can pose questions to the goodreads community with reader q a or ask your favorite author a question with ask the author. My year of rest and re. She began her bachelor s in political economy at the university of california berkeley when she was only sixteen and went on to obtain an mfa in creative writing from columbia university. 1476756554 hardcover published in 2018 kindle edition published in 2018 1476756589 paperback published in 2019 14481.

From twice national book award nominated rachel kushner comes a spectacularly compelling heart stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary america. Ask and answer questions about books. Editions for the mars room. The mars room builds to a redemption that comes from hard truth sharp and broken and shaped by an author of exceptional power and grace jeff baker the seattle times the book is beautifully written without sentimentality or agenda and at times even with a sly and dark humor.

Rachel kushner is the only writer to ever be nominated for a national book award in fiction for both a first and second novel. Her prior novel the flamethrowers was expansive and thrilling but this is richer and deeper more ambitious in its moral vision. Goodreads members who liked the mars room also liked. The mars room.

An exhilarating always surprising read. In doing so it reminds us that fiction that startles and abrades is as necessary or even more necessary than fiction.