The Mars Room: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

TIME’S #1 FICTION Name OF THE YEAR • NY TIMES NOTABLE Publication OF 2018

FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL Reserve CRITICS CIRCLE Prize

LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

An instant NY Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Space gained tweets from Margaret Atwood-“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them of them drawn”-and from Stephen Ruler-“The Mars Room is the real offer, about The Mars Area: A Book jarring, terrible, compassionate, funny.”

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German celebrity, is at the beginning of two consecutive existence phrases at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the globe from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the uncovered essentials had a need to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners as well; as well as the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great laughter and precision.

Amazing and unsentimental, The Mars Space is “wholly genuine…serious…luminous” (The Wall Road Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even while they break your center” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)-a spectacularly powerful, heart-stopping novel in regards to a lifestyle gone from the rails in modern America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet amazingly refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as you of our best novelists” (Entertainment Regular).