THE MARS ROOM

Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Womens Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars R oom strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romys estranged mother.Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The deadpan absu rdities of ...[Llegir més]