I have to confess I had never heard of Emma Donoghue prior to the Oscar buzz that surrounded the film ‘Room’ earlier this year. 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. But Jack’s curiosity is building alongside her own desperation, and she knows that Room cannot contain either indefinitely. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in that eleven-by-eleven-foot space. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it’s the prison where she’s been held since she was nineteen-for seven long years. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack’s imagination-the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells the coziness of Wardrobe beneath Ma’s clothes, where she tucks him in safely at night, in case Old Nick comes. It’s where he and Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. Macy#1 International BestsellerWinner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction PrizeWinner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Canada and Caribbean region)Winner of the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year. Synopsis from Goodreads: Now a Major Motion Picture starring Brie Larson and William H. Published by HarperCollins Publishers on September 15th 2015
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